Telling doctor stomach hurts: Answering the doctor's questions about your symptoms

💬 French says "have some fever" with de la, where English uses "a." You'll answer the same way: J'ai de la fièvre "I have a fever."

💬 French usually makes nausea plural, des nausées, where English keeps it singular.

💬 After a negative, de la shrinks to plain de. So de la fièvre becomes pas de fièvre, just like pas de café "no coffee."

💬 After amount words like un peu or beaucoup "a lot", des shrinks to plain de: beaucoup de fièvre.

💬 After pas, use just de for "no/any": pas de fièvre, pas de douleur "no pain".

💬 D' is de joined to the next word, so it never appears alone. In speech you'll often hear it shortened further to just D'acc.

💬 French says "lie yourself down", with vous tacked on after the verb. Same pattern: Asseyez-vous "Sit down".

💬 Je vais plus an action word is the easy way to say "I'm going to" do something. Try Je vais prendre "I'm going to take."

💬 Je vais + a basic verb means "I'm going to", just like English. The vous sits before the verb it belongs to: vous examiner.

💬 Grave means "serious", not "grave" in the gloomy sense. In everyday talk ce n'est pas grave is also just "no worries".

🇫🇷 You take the ordonnance to any pharmacie "pharmacy". Keep it, as it's also needed for reimbursement.

💬 Faire "to do/make" stands in for "write" here. French often uses it for producing a document: faire un certificat "write a medical note".

🇫🇷 Addressing a GP as docteur is normal and polite in France, with no surname needed.

🇫🇷 Doctors and pharmacists often say this as you leave. A simple Merci, au revoir is the natural reply.