One of the challenges in learning a new language is to realise that literal translations from your native language into the new language almost never work. Unfortunately, some English native speakers sometimes learn this the hard way, as the example of “I’m bored will” show you.
Translating literally from English, many people say “Ich bin langweilig”. Yet what they are actually saying is that they are boring. Ouch! So the correct way to say it is actually “ Ich bin gelangweilt”. That is because "langweilig" is the German adjective for boring, whereas "gelangweilt" is the participle and it means bored.
Ich hoffe, ihr wart nicht gelangweilt von diesem Post.
(I hope you weren’t bored by this post)
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