You will say what hurts and what you have at the doctor's, and understand the question about your complaint.
The idea
Name the body part with the ending for “my” (-ım/-im/-um/-üm) and add ağrıyor: Başım ağrıyor, Dişim ağrıyor, Gözüm ağrıyor. The vowel of the ending follows vowel harmony. For a complaint with no sore spot, use var: Ateşim var, Öksürüğüm var. The doctor often asks Neyiniz var?
| Word | With “my” | Sentence |
|---|---|---|
| baş | başım | Başım ağrıyor. |
| diş | dişim | Dişim ağrıyor. |
| göz | gözüm | Gözüm ağrıyor. |
| kol | kolum | Kolum ağrıyor. |
| karın | karnım | Karnım ağrıyor. |
| boğaz | boğazım | Boğazım ağrıyor. |
| ayak | ayağım | Ayağım ağrıyor. |
| öksürük | öksürüğüm | Öksürüğüm var. |
Read the text
Doktor: Buyurun, anlatın lütfen.
Hasta: Üç gündür öksürüyorum ve boğazım ağrıyor.
Doktor: Ateşiniz var mı?
Hasta: Evet, biraz ateşim var.
Doktor: Bu ilacı günde iki kez için. Bir hafta sonra tekrar gelin.
Examples
- Sabahtan beri başım ağrıyor.My head has been hurting since this morning.
- Dün geceden beri karnım ağrıyor.My stomach has been hurting since last night.
- Boğazım ağrıyor ve ateşim var.My throat hurts and I have a fever.
- Doktora gitmem lazım.I need to go to the doctor.Gitmem lazım is learnt here as a ready phrase for “I need to go”; its pattern is explained in the lesson on gerek and lazım.
- Neyiniz var?What seems to be the matter?
- Öksürüğüm var.I have a cough.The final k of öksürük softens to ğ before the vowel of the ending: öksürüğüm.
- İlacı günde üç kez için.Take the medicine three times a day.
- dişimmy toothdişim-im / -ım / -um / -üm / -m: my
- Sol dizim ağrıyor.My left knee hurts.Dizim is the subject: the knee is what hurts. The person appears only in the ending -im, so there is no ben.
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Watch out
The body part is the subject, not you: Başım ağrıyor, not Ben ağrıyorum. And Baş ağrıyor alone does not say whose head it is. Words such as öksürük soften their last consonant: öksürüğüm, not öksürükim.
Try it yourself
Add “my” to baş (head): my head hurts.
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başım
başım: the last vowel of baş is a, a back unrounded vowel, so the ending has ı.
Add “my” to diş (tooth): my tooth hurts.
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dişim
dişim: the last vowel i is front and unrounded, so the ending is -im.
Add “my” to göz (eye): my eye hurts.
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gözüm
gözüm: ö is front and rounded, so the ending has ü: -üm.
I have a cough. Add “my” to öksürük (cough) and watch its last consonant.
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öksürüğüm
öksürüğüm: before the ending the k becomes ğ, and the last ü asks for -üm.
Practice round
Answer questions, then rebuild Turkish sentences and words where available. We keep your score.
Add “my” to baş (head): my head hurts.
Add “my” to diş (tooth): my tooth hurts.
Add “my” to göz (eye): my eye hurts.
I have a cough. Add “my” to öksürük (cough) and watch its last consonant.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the parts in order to build this word: my tooth
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