A1.2 · 27 of 36
Körper & Befinden
Lesson · 4 rules · about 5 min
When you're ill, say what hurts and how you feel — Mein Kopf tut weh is the sentence that gets you help.
- 1… tut weh / … tun weh
- 2Ich habe …schmerzen
- 3How you feel
- 4The genders of the body
Why this matters
When you are ill, you need two things first: naming what hurts, and saying how you feel. The pattern for pain is Mein Kopf tut weh — literally 'my head does pain' — with tun (to do) and the body part as subject; plural parts take tun weh: Meine Füße tun weh. Or use Schmerzen: Ich habe Kopfschmerzen, Bauchschmerzen, Zahnschmerzen — the body part glued to Schmerzen. For how you feel: Wie geht es dir? – Mir geht es gut / schlecht / nicht so gut; Ich bin krank / müde; Ich habe Fieber. The doctor's opening line, Was fehlt Ihnen? (what's wrong?), completes the set — a fuller quiz later in the course builds the doctor's visit on this. The first items ask for the body part; the rest ask for what goes round it — mein or meine, tut or tun, and the …schmerzen compound.
Körperteil (mit Artikel)
Mein tut weh. Ich brauche eine Tablette. (head)
My head hurts. I need a tablet.
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Körper & Befinden · A1.2
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