Daily life

exhausting

extremely tiring

Making you feel extremely tired and in need of rest.

B2 very common speech & writing

Hear it in real life

How was the hike?

Beautiful, but exhausting by the end.

Play the conversation

Moving to a new flat was exhausting because we had so many boxes.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: I was exhausting after work.

Say: I was exhausted after work.

“Exhausting” describes something that causes tiredness; “exhausted” describes the person who feels tired.

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

an exhausting day; be exhausting; find something exhausting

Your turn: say it out loud

Moving to a new flat was exhausting because we had so many boxes.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

exhausting

extremely tiring

“Moving to a new flat was exhausting because we had so many boxes.”

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