Do you know how to talk about health conditions in Spanish?

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In this lesson, you will practice how to talk about health conditions in Spanish.

Let's look at the main dialogue. Two people are having a conversation.

Lucas, no you don't look well. What's wrong? Lucas, you don't look well. What's wrong?

Me dule the head hurts. My head hurts. my dole the stomach hurts.

My head hurts, my stomach hearts too.

Do you have a fever?

This character asks,

Do you have a fever? The pattern,

Tener plus noun, is used to talk about common health conditions

and symptoms in Spanish.

So, this structure is used to talk about conditions such as fever, pain, or headache.

Unlike English, Spanish often uses the verb, Tener, to talk about physical states or sensations.

So instead of saying, I'm cold, we say

Tengu frio, literally translated as I have cold. Okay, however, this pattern works with a wide

range of health-related nouns.

So from conditions like gripe, flu, to sensations,

ambr, hunger, or,

Dolo de-abeza headache The verb

Tener means to have

and it's an irregular

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