Telling doctor stomach hurts: Saying your stomach hurts and for how long

🇩🇪 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.

💬 Essen is the verb "to eat" used as a noun, so it takes a capital letter and das. After nach, das becomes dem: nach dem Schlafen "after sleeping".

💬 Rezept means both "prescription" and "recipe". The context tells you which one is meant.

🇩🇪 You take the prescription to an Apotheke "pharmacy". Prescription medicine isn't sold in supermarkets or drugstores in Germany.

💬 Polite instructions put the verb first, then Sie: Trinken Sie viel Wasser "Drink plenty of water". It sounds like a question but is said as advice.

💬 ein paar with a small p means "a few". ein Paar with a capital P means "a pair".

🇩🇪 Patients in Germany often address a female doctor as Frau Doktor and a male doctor as Herr Doktor. It's polite and a bit traditional, and saying Doktor alone sounds abrupt.

🇩🇪 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.