Questions & Answers about Ich fühle mich gut.
Why do we need mich in this sentence?
In German, the verb for expressing how you feel physically or emotionally is the reflexive verb sich fühlen. This means you literally have to say "I feel myself good." If you translate "I feel good" word-for-word from English and leave out mich, the sentence will sound incomplete to a German speaker.
Is mich in the accusative or dative case here?
It is in the accusative case. The verb sich fühlen requires an accusative reflexive pronoun. For the subject ich, the accusative reflexive pronoun is mich.
What happens if I use fühlen without a reflexive pronoun?
If you use fühlen normally (non-reflexively), it means to physically touch or feel an object with your hands. For example, Ich fühle das Wasser means "I am feeling the water." To describe your own state of being, you must make the verb reflexive.
Why doesn't gut have an ending, like gute or gutes?
In this sentence, gut describes the verb (how you feel), so it acts as an adverb. In German, words used as adverbs or as adjectives placed after the verb do not get any extra grammatical endings.
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