Spanish has the permanent soy and the transient estoy as equivalents of 'I am'. Happiness and drunkenness are temporary states unlike ugliness and tackiness, feo/a and pesado/a.
To illustrate the difference between soy and estoy, a schoolteacher used to tell the story of a young man who came drunk every night. The typical neighborhood's old spinster stayed up to chastise the young man, calling him ¡Borracho! ¡Degenerado! One night the young man spat back: Sí, señorita Velasco, he said, I might be drunk, but tomorrow I will be sober, pero usted todavía será fea, but you will continue to be not pretty.
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