"I don't feel like myself" in Spanish.

Question

How do you say "I don't feel like myself" in Spanish? I used the Spanishdict translator but got three different answers. None of the answers where what I guessed. I thought it might be "No me siento mi misma". Thanks!

Answer 1

Perhaps... No me siento como yo. (I'm just guessing)

Answer 2

No me siento como yo. No at the start because it is negative the phrase.

Answer 3

1- Me siento como si no fuera/fuese yo mismo.

2- Me siento como si fuera o fuese otro.

Or No me siento como yo mismo. - juanmelgar, Mar 28, 2014

Answer 4

fuese is more poetic

Answer 5

How do you say "I don't feel like myself" in Spanish?

Well, to answer your question:

I found this in my Spanish Oxford Dictionary: (4th Edn)

I wasn't feeling quite myself = No me sentía del todo bien, no sé qué me pasó

So using this same construction, just change the sentence, from the imperfect to the present indicative: No me siento del todo bien = I don't feel quite myself

Tip: when looking for idiomatic expressions in a comprehensive dictionary such as the Oxford Spanish Dictionary, please be very careful to check the context in which the example is given to make sure that it matches the way you intend to use the sentence, and also look for a key word to help you find the sentence. I looked under the verb 'feel' Often the key word is a verb.

Using the same key word principle you can also look up such expressions in the SpanishDict phrase book

By the way, online translators will usually fail to translate idiomatic expressions accurately between any languages because they are not sophisticate enough to adapt language to the way it is used everyday by native speakers, and so they will translate them too literally! Please rememeber this! . I am not saying you should not use them but try to observe how natives use their own language and use them as your guideline.

I hope this helps