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

💬 Sobre todo looks like "over everything", but it simply means "especially" or "mainly". It's handy for pointing to when something is worst.

💬 Spanish says you "have" a fever, using tener and no "a". You'll hear the same pattern in ¿tiene tos? "do you have a cough?".

💬 Putting no after a noun denies just that one thing: fiebre no means "no fever, at least". Try it with other symptoms, as in vómitos no.

🇪🇸 Vale is everywhere in Spain, from doctors to waiters to friends. In Latin America it sounds distinctly Spanish, and people there say bueno or ok instead.

💬 Spanish often uses the plain present for something about to happen: le receto means "I'll prescribe you". The le here means "(to) you" in the polite form.

💬 To tell someone politely to do something, verbs ending in -er swap their ending for an a: comer becomes coma, and beber becomes beba "drink".

💬 When a doctor gives advice, estos días means "the next few days" rather than "nowadays". The surrounding context tells you which one is meant.

💬 Seguir means "to carry on", so sigue igual is literally "it carries on the same". You can also say sigue doliendo "it still hurts".

💬 This comes from volver "to return", and the o becomes ue when it's stressed. The same change happens in duele, which comes from doler.

🇪🇸 This is the standard send-off from doctors, pharmacists and neighbours when you're ill. Just answer gracias.

🇪🇸 Patients in Spain commonly address doctors directly as doctor or doctora, with no surname needed. Use the -a ending for a woman.