Learn Farsi: آیا در سونا عرق کردی؟ بله، خیلی گرمم است! - Did you sweat in the sauna? Yes, I am very hot!

Physical sensations like feeling hot, cold, or hungry use a special structure in Farsi. Instead of saying "I am hot", you essentially say "It is hot to me". You take the adjective گرم (hot), attach the pronoun ending ـَم (my/to me) to show who is feeling it, and always use the 3rd person singular verb است (is). If you said من گرم هستم, it would sound like your physical body is emitting heat to the touch!

Does the spoken version of گرمم است sound different in everyday conversation?

Yes! In casual spoken Farsi, the است merges into the word before it. As a result, گرمم است becomes گرممه (garmameh). The final "eh" sound replaces the formal است completely.

Why does the ending ـَم attach to گرم and not to خیلی?

The personal ending for experiencer verbs always attaches to the specific noun or adjective of the sensation itself, which is گرم. The word خیلی (very) is an adverb that merely modifies the degree of the feeling, so it stays separate while the core sensation block گرمم است holds onto the pronoun ending.

Why is the verb کردی used to mean "sweat" in the first sentence?

The Farsi word for "to sweat" is a compound verb: عرق کردن, which literally translates as "to do sweat". Since the question asks if "you" sweated in the past tense, the light verb (to do) is conjugated into the second person singular past tense, becoming .