• MrQuallzin@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    German (if I’m remembering right from my high school language class days), does the same thing as well. It’s not ‘I am hungry’, it’s ‘I have hunger’.

    (If there’s any actual German readers/speakers and I misspoke, I apologize. This was almost 15 years ago at this point!)

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 hours ago

      Native speaker of German here: Both “ich bin hungrig” (I am hungry) and “ich habe Hunger” (I have hunger) are valid German. The latter is more common though, the adjective “hungrig” is more often used as an attributive adjective.