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

🇩🇪 Genau! on its own is a very common way to agree, like "Exactly!" or "Right!". You'll hear it constantly in conversation.

💬 Mitte is a die word, but after in it becomes der Mitte. Compare rechts "on the right" and links "on the left", which need no article.

💬 German says 'to me it is sick' here, not 'I am sick': mir, never ich. Same pattern: mir ist kalt "I'm cold", mir ist schwindelig "I'm dizzy".

💬 For the past, haben comes early and the action word goes to the very end: gegessen "eaten". Same shape: Was haben Sie getrunken? "What did you drink?"

💬 Time words like gestern slot in between Sie and the final gegessen, not at the end as in English.

💬 im is short for in dem "in the". Germans use 'in' for where you ate, so im Restaurant is 'at a restaurant'.

💬 schlimm means 'bad' in the sense of serious or worrying, not poor quality. You'll also hear the reassuring Nicht so schlimm "Not so bad".

💬 This is Magen "stomach" plus Verstimmung "upset", built the same way as the English. The last part decides the gender, which is why it takes eine.

🇩🇪 Herbal tea, especially fennel or chamomile, is a standard German home remedy for stomach trouble. Doctors do recommend it before reaching for medication.

🇩🇪 Germans say this to anyone who's ill, from colleagues to shop staff, and doctors often say it as you leave. A simple Danke is the usual reply.

🇩🇪 Leaving a doctor's office, the polite formal goodbye is right. Many people also add Danke schön on the way out.