| Do you remember how the character said, |
| "My throat hurts, and I have a cough." |
| Mein Hals tut weh, und ich habe Husten. |
| Mein Hals tut weh, und ich habe Husten. |
| This sentence follows two patterns here:. |
| Pattern one is: Mein or Meine plus a body part, followed by tut weh. |
| If it's more than one body part, you use tun weh. |
| This means, "My body part hurts." or "My body parts hurt." |
| Use mein with masculine and neuter body parts in the singular. |
| Use meine with feminine body parts or with plural body parts. |
| Then add tut weh for singular, and tun weh for plural. |
| Pattern two is: Ich habe plus a symptom. |
| This means, "I have a symptom." |
| You use it to talk about things like a fever, a cough, or a headache. |
| These two patterns are the most common ways to explain how you feel when you are sick or in pain. |
| Here's how the line from the dialogue uses these patterns. |
| Mein Hals tut weh, und ich habe Husten. |
| "My throat hurts, and I have a cough." |
| Let's break it down. |
| Mein Hals means "my throat." |
| tut weh means "hurts," following the first pattern. |
| und means "and." |
| ich habe means "I have." |
| Husten means "a cough." |
| This follows the second pattern. |
| So altogether, Mein Hals tut weh, und ich habe Husten means "My throat hurts, and I have a cough." |
| Let's look at some useful vocabulary of body parts and symptoms: |
| For example, important body parts you might need are |
| der Hals for "throat," |
| der Kopf for "head," |
| die Augen for "eyes," |
| die Ohren for "ears," and |
| die Beine for "legs." |
| Some common symptoms are |
| der Husten for "cough," |
| das Fieber for "fever," |
| die Kopfschmerzen for "headache," |
| and die Halsschmerzen for "sore throat." |
| With these words, you can easily build sentences like "my head hurts" or "I have a fever" using the simple patterns you've learned. |
| Now let's look at some speaking examples. |
| Mein Kopf tut weh. |
| "My head hurts." |
| Can you see how the pattern applies here? |
| Let's break it down. |
| Mein Kopf means "my head." |
| tut weh means "hurts." |
| So altogether, Mein Kopf tut weh means "My head hurts." |
| Here's another example |
| Meine Augen tun weh. |
| "My eyes hurt." |
| Here, we use tun instead of tut, because Augen "eyes" are plural. |
| Meine Augen tun weh. |
| "My eyes hurt." |
| Let's try one more, |
| Mein Rücken tut weh. |
| "My back hurts." |
| Mein Rücken tut weh. |
| "My back hurts." |
| Another one. |
| Ich habe Bauchschmerzen. |
| "I have a stomachache." |
| Ich habe Bauchschmerzen. |
| "I have a stomachache." |
| One last example. |
| Ich habe Schnupfen. |
| "I have a runny nose." |
| Ich habe Schnupfen. |
| "I have a runny nose." |
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