空腹を感じた。

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#1
English Translation

I felt hungry.

is this a particularly formal way of saying お腹が空いた?

#2

@ericaw
空腹を感じた sounds unnatural. It’s just a bad word-for-word translation from the English sentence.
If you would like to rephrase お腹が空いた in a more formal way,

空腹を覚えた。(pron. くうふくをおぼえた)

is the right one.

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