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Spanish dialogue with translation · A1 · 14 lines

Me duele la garganta My throat hurts

Comic · 13 panels

Panel 1 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Good morning, Pablo. What's wrong?”
  1. Médico

    Buenos días, Pablo. ¿Qué te pasa?

    Good morning, Pablo. What's wrong?

Panel 2 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Good morning. I'm sick. I have a headache and my throat hurts (man speaking).”
  1. Pablo

    Buenos días. Estoy enfermo. Tengo dolor de cabeza y me duele la garganta.

    Good morning. I'm sick. I have a headache and my throat hurts (man speaking).

Panel 3 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Do you have a fever? Do you have a cough?”
  1. Médico

    ¿Tienes fiebre? ¿Tienes tos?

    Do you have a fever? Do you have a cough?

Panel 4 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Yes, I have a cough and a bit of a fever. I'm very cold and a little scared.”
  1. Pablo

    Sí, tengo tos y un poco de fiebre. Tengo mucho frío y un poco de miedo.

    Yes, I have a cough and a bit of a fever. I'm very cold and a little scared.

Panel 5 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Since when?”
  1. Médico

    ¿Desde cuándo?

    Since when?

Panel 6 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Since Sunday. My stomach hurts too, and I'm not hungry.”
  1. Pablo

    Desde el domingo. También me duele el estómago y no tengo hambre.

    Since Sunday. My stomach hurts too, and I'm not hungry.

Panel 7 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Open your mouth, please. Look here.” “Your throat is red. It's a cold or the flu.”
  1. Médico

    Abre la boca, por favor. Mira aquí.

    Open your mouth, please. Look here.

  2. Médico

    La garganta está roja. Es un resfriado o la gripe.

    Your throat is red. It's a cold or the flu.

Panel 8 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “What should I do? Tomorrow I have a meeting at the office.”
  1. Pablo

    ¿Qué debo hacer? Mañana tengo una reunión en la oficina.

    What should I do? Tomorrow I have a meeting at the office.

Panel 9 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “You should rest at home and drink lots of water. Take this medicine: one pill every eight hours.”
  1. Médico

    Debes descansar en casa y beber mucha agua. Toma este medicamento: una pastilla cada ocho horas.

    You should rest at home and drink lots of water. Take this medicine: one pill every eight hours.

Panel 10 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Here's the prescription. If you're not better in three days, come back to the hospital.”
  1. Médico

    Aquí tienes la receta. Si no estás mejor en tres días, vuelve al hospital.

    Here's the prescription. If you're not better in three days, come back to the hospital.

Panel 11 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “Can I work tomorrow?”
  1. Pablo

    ¿Puedo trabajar mañana?

    Can I work tomorrow?

Panel 12 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “No, you can't. You need to rest at home. Health comes first.”
  1. Médico

    No, no puedes. Necesitas descansar en casa. La salud es lo primero.

    No, you can't. You need to rest at home. Health comes first.

Panel 13 of 13 for “My throat hurts”: “OK, thanks. See you later.”
  1. Pablo

    Vale, gracias. Hasta luego.

    OK, thanks. See you later.

Grammar for this text

It hurts: me duele. me duele la garganta, me duele el estómago — word for word "the throat hurts me". doler works like gustar: me shows who feels the pain, and the thing that hurts comes after the verb. Use el or la before the body part, not "my". You can say the same with the noun dolor (pain): Tengo dolor de cabeza — "I have a headache", word for word "I have pain of head".

tengo for how you feel. tengo tos — I have a cough, no tengo hambre — I'm not hungry, Tengo mucho frío — I'm very cold. Here frío is a noun ("cold"), so "very" is mucho.

Estoy enfermo, está roja. How someone feels and how something looks right now take estar: Estoy enfermo — I'm sick, La garganta está roja — your throat is red. The diagnosis takes ser: Es un resfriado o la gripe.

The doctor uses tú. ¿Qué te pasa? — What's wrong?, word for word "What's happening to you?". Commands: Abre la boca, Mira aquí, Toma este medicamento, vuelve al hospital — open, look, take, come back. The tú command looks the same as the él / ella form of the present: abre — he opens, but also "open!".

Should, can, need. ¿Qué debo hacer?, Debes descansar, ¿Puedo trabajar mañana?, Necesitas descansar — after deber (should), poder (can) and necesitar (to need), the second verb is an infinitive.

en tres días. Si no estás mejor en tres días — if you're not better in three days: en + a period of time means "in", that is, after that time. ¿Desde cuándo? — Since when?

Words and grammar of the unit: Tell a doctor what hurts.

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