Practice talking about health in German
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| Do you know how to talk about health problems in German? |
| Welcome to Three Step German Practice by GermanPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice talking about health problems. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Hallo Aron, was tut dir weh? |
| "Hello Aron, what hurts?" |
| Mein Hals tut weh, und ich habe Husten. |
| "My throat hurts, and I have a cough." |
| In German, there are two very simple patterns to talk about health problems. |
| You can use mein or meine with a body part, followed by tut weh or tun weh, to say that something hurts. |
| Tut is used when talking about a singular body part, and tun is for plural body parts. |
| You can also use ich habe with a word for a symptom, which means "I have," to say what you are experiencing, like a cough or a fever. |
| It helps to know some basic vocabulary for body parts and symptoms when talking about health. |
| Words like der Hals for "throat," der Kopf for "head," die Augen for "eyes," die Ohren for "ears," and die Beine for "legs" are very common. |
| For symptoms, you might hear der Husten for "cough," das Fieber for "fever," die Kopfschmerzen for "headache," and die Halsschmerzen for "sore throat." |
| With this vocabulary, you can quickly make sentences such as "my head hurts" or "I have a fever" using the simple patterns you've already learned. |
| Now let's practice using this grammar and vocabulary with some sentences. |
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