"I'm cool"
How do you say I'm cool?
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Hello mj Burton
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You asked:
How do you say I'm cool?
Well, that depends exactly on what you mean by the term cool 
It can mean quite lot of things depending on the context and how it is used! Please provide an example of how you intend to use the phrase eg: (a sentence) I 'm a cool guy or It's cool that you live opposite me!
The English use their language so that one word carries with it various meanings but the Spanish people often have/use different words for these separate meanings; each understood by their distinct contexts!
You can say: ¡Es muy en la onda! = He's really cool! (trendy, laid back)
Soy (muy) en la onda = I'm (really) cool!
Es un tipo bien / Es un tío legal = He's a cool guy (acceptable, all right)
Soy un tipo bien = I'm a cool guy (acceptable, all right)
There is a different expression meaning How cool/that's cool = ¡Qué guay!
Lo pasamos guay en tu fiesta = We had a really cool time at your party
If you look at this thread you will see how the meaning also varies according to country and region.enter link description here
I hope this helps
Welcome to SpanishDict. It would be very cool if you would complete your profile information as it pertains to language. Estoy brutal, or estoy bien.
For RAC: Okay, so maybe I was being a little pissy with my comment, and yes probably I knew what he meant, but with slang it is never easy.
From a temperature sense, I always like to be cool, never too hot, and never cold. From a personality standpoint, I am told I am a bit cool, and people try to teach me the social graces, and even slowly are getting me to hug people. At work, when they put pressure on me and I get a bit testy, they tell me I need to learn to keep my cool. And when they make changes that I can point out exactly why those changes will lead to disaster, they tell me I need to keep cool with it. But in the sense he probably meant it- I will never be cool (too late for that), and as I look back on my life my guess is that I probably never was. As such it has never occured to me to learn how to say "I am cool" in that sense.
To say it of something else I might say:
Qué genial- in general
Qué padre= in Mexico
Qué chévere= in the North of South America
Qué guay- in Spain (as Feliz notes)
Elsewhere I don't have a clue. And what I know might well be passé or even wrong.
And whether those terms work when self-aggrandizing (something I never find cool) I don't have a clue.
It reminds of when I was in Mexico talking to some people half my age, and they told me ¿Qué onda? was old fashioned and I needed to say ¿Qué pedo? to be cool. To this day I don't know if that would be really appropriate for me, or if they just thought it would be funny to have a middle aged balding man saying that.
If my daughter says" that's sick", and my son says "that's sick"- I have to interpret them completely different, almost opposites. My daughter's of course is ¡qué asco! - my son's would be what I put above, or whatever has replaced those in current venacular, as i don't picture my son saying that's cool, although I could see him saying I'm cool with that.
Probably way too much information, but I want to apologize for being a bit curt with my answer (even if it was only a comment, not an answer), and in the future I will try to stick to questions I think I can answer reasonably well.
Soy Genial.
