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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn a few nouns for the most commonly mentioned parts of the body in Spanish.

We'll also get more practice with dar and with our new pronouns and

conjunctions. Let's begin with the word for body, which is querpo. As you might guess, this is

related to the Latin word that gives us corpse in English, but in Spanish, Cuerpo can refer to a living body as well.

For example, which part of the body is unwell?

Now in English, we would probably say,

which part of your body isn't well, because in English

we rarely refer to body parts without a possessive pronoun, such as his head, my hands, and so on.

But in Spanish, body parts are often referred to simply with articles, such as the head and the hands.

It's usually clear from context whose head or hands you're talking about.

Let's demonstrate with an example that uses the word for head, which is the feminine noun,

Cabeza.

Check out this English sentence. Why are you scratching your head?

In Spanish, you wouldn't say scratching your head. Instead, you'd actually say

scratching yourself the head. So the Spanish would be,

because te you scratch,

la Cabeza.

Forque you rasked the

Cabeza?

As another example,

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