Emotions & feelings

feel alive

feel energetic and excited

To feel alive means to feel full of energy, excitement, or strong interest in life.

B1 common speech & writing

expression

Hear it in real life

Why do you keep climbing?

It makes me feel alive.

Play the conversation

I feel alive whenever I run along the beach before sunrise.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: The music makes me feel living.

Say: The music makes me feel alive.

Use “alive” to describe feeling energetic and engaged with life, not “living.”

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

feel alive; make someone feel alive; felt alive

Your turn: say it out loud

I feel alive whenever I run along the beach before sunrise.

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

feel alive

feel energetic and excited

“I feel alive whenever I run along the beach before sunrise.”

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