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    LESSON NOTES

    Absolute Beginner S3 #25


    Asking About Someone’s Health in
    Mexico

    CONTENTS
    2 Informal Spanish
    2 English
    2 Vocabulary
    3 Sample Sentences
    3 Vocabulary Phrase Usage
    4 Grammar
    6 Cultural Insight

    # 25
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    INFORMAL SPANISH

    1. ASHLEY: ¡Hola Alex! Te ves cansado.

    2. ALEJANDRO: Sí, me siento mal.

    3. ASHLEY: ¿Qué pasa?

    4. ALEJANDRO: Me duele la cabeza.

    ENGLISH

    1. ASHLEY: Hi, Alex! You look tired.

    2. ALEJANDRO: Yes, I don't feel good.

    3. ASHLEY: What's the matter?

    4. ALEJANDRO: I have a headache.

    VOCABULARY

    S panish English C lass Ge nde r

    cansado tired adjective

    mal bad adjective neuter

    te you

    sentirse to feel verb

    verse to look at oneself verb

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    tener to have verb

    cabeza head noun feminine

    doler to hurt, to cause pain verb

    SAMPLE SENTENCES

    Cuando estoy cansado, duermo Me siento muy mal.


    como un tronco.
    "I feel very bad."
    "When I'm tired, I sleep like a log."

    La mujer te está sonriendo. Hoy no voy a ir a trabajar, me siento


    enfermo.
    "The woman is smiling at you."
    "I'm not going to work today: I feel
    sick."

    Te ves muy bonita. Tengo sueño.

    "You look beautiful." "I’m sleepy."

    Tengo dos hermanos. Me duele la cabeza.

    "I have two brothers." "My head hurts."

    Las inyecciones por lo general duelen poco.

    "Generally, injections cause little pain."

    VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE

    estoy cansado/cansada ("to be tired")

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    Estoy cansado/cansada is a phrase that we use very often to explain why we don't look so
    good or why we are in a bad mood.

    For Example:

    1. Estoy agotado/agotada.
    "I'm exhausted."

    2. Estoy fatigado/fatigada.
    "I'm fatigued."

    3. Estoy estresado/estresada.
    "I'm stressed."

    It is often followed by an explanation.

    me siento mal ("I feel bad")

    Me siento mal is better translated in English as "I don't feel good." It normally refers to a
    physical or emotional condition, in the latter case referring to something we did that was not
    right and that makes us feel regret.

    me duele ("[something] hurts")

    While not part of our grammar review in this lesson, we can learn this useful expression in
    and of itself: me duele must be followed by the part of our body that hurts, such as me duele el
    dedo ("my finger") and me duele la cabeza ("my head"), etc.

    GRAMMAR

    The Focus of This Lesson Is to Teach You the Use of Reflexive Verbs to Express
    Feelings: "I Feel Good," "I Feel Bad," etc.
    ¡Hola Alex! Te ves cansado. Sí, me siento mal.
    "Hi, Alex! You look tired. Yes, I don't feel good."

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    In reflexive verbs, the subject acts upon himself (going to sleep, taking a bath, etc.), which
    makes them the verbs of choice for expressing feelings or talking about someone's physical
    condition. We call these reflexive verbs. Even though the infinitive form of reflexive verbs is a
    single word (verse, sentirse, etc.), it breaks up into two when conjugated: me veo, me siento...
    etc. Study the following table:

    Reflexive Verbs

    Infinitive Conjugation Adjective "English"

    Verse Me veo bien "I look fine"

    Te ves mal "you look bad"

    "he/she looks
    Se ve contento happy"

    Sentirse Me siento bien "I feel fine"

    Te sientes mal "you feel bad"

    Se siente contento "he/she feels happy"

    Ponerse Me pongo bien "I get well"

    Te pones mal "you get sick"

    Se pone contento "he/she gets happy"

    In all these cases, we use personal pronouns me, te, se... to indicate who the action of the
    reflexive verb falls upon: "I feel bad," "you feel bad," "he/she feels bad." Accordingly, the
    conjugation of the verb must change to adapt to this person.

    In this dialogue, we have two reflexive verbs and one intransitive verb: te ves (reflexive), me
    siento (reflexive), and me duele (intransitive). In the case of reflexive verbs, they can be
    followed by adjectives or adverbs, as in this case cansado ("tired") and mal ("not good"). In
    the case of intransitive verbs, they don't need a direct object. When Alejandro said me duele
    la cabeza (literally, "my head hurts me"), the verb doler, me duele, is intransitive and la cabeza
    is not the direct object: it is the subject. For that reason, we can also say it inversely: La

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    cabeza me duele.

    For Example:

    1. ¡Te pones roja!


    "You get red!"

    2. Te vas temprano.
    "You leave early."

    Examples From This Dialogue

    1. Me duele la cabeza.
    "I have a headache."

    CULTURAL INSIGHT

    Are You Feeling Well in Mexico?

    In Mexico, people are not exactly hypochondriacs. In fact, far from that, they tend to disregard
    sickness, often going to the doctor only when the situation is out of control. However,
    grandmothers and aunts take it as a hobby to find home remedies for all kinds of maladies
    and won't stop asking how you feel, even if you've been healthy for months. Some critics say
    that Mexicans have a cultural addiction to pathos and talk about their tragedies too much, as if
    suffering meant some kind of honor. Contemporary society has changed a lot in this regard,
    but still, when you feel bad, just go to the doctor and don't make a fuss about it, or you'll end
    up being the talk of the town.

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