Health & Body
स्वास्थ्य और शरीर
Talking about pain and body parts in French leans heavily on avoir mal à — a fixed construction worth learning as a whole phrase. Hindi has its own equally fixed pattern, मुझे...में दर्द है (literally 'to me, pain is in...'), built around the dative experiencer rather than avoir ('to have').
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
avoir mal à + body part ≈ मुझे...में दर्द है
J'ai mal à la tête. (I have a headache — literally 'I have pain at the head.')
मुझे सिर में दर्द है।
French describes pain with avoir mal à + the body part, using à contracted with the article as needed (à la tête, au ventre, aux dents) — grammatically, j'ai ('I have') is the true subject-verb pair, with mal ('pain') as its object. Hindi builds the same idea around a dative experiencer instead: मुझे ('to me') + सिर में ('in the head') + दर्द है ('pain is') — there's no verb 'to have' anywhere in the Hindi sentence; मुझे simply marks who's experiencing it, and दर्द है states that pain exists in that location. Both languages route pain through a fixed multi-word phrase rather than a single verb like 'to hurt', but French's phrase is built around having, and Hindi's is built around a location where something exists.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
- Hindi
- मुझे सिर में दर्द हैmujhe sir meñ dard hai
- English
- I have a headache
- Hindi
- मुझे पेट में दर्द हैmujhe peṭ meñ dard hai
- English
- I have a stomachache
- Hindi
- मुझे बुख़ार हैmujhe bukhār hai
- English
- I have a fever
- Hindi
- मैं बीमार हूँmaiñ bīmār hūñ
- English
- I am sick
- Hindi
- डॉक्टरḍākṭar
- English
- the doctor
- Hindi
- दवाख़ानाdavākhānā
- English
- the pharmacy
- Hindi
- डॉक्टर से मिलने का समयḍākṭar se milne kā samay
- English
- a doctor's appointment
- Hindi
- दिलdil
- English
- the heart
- Hindi
- आँखेंāñkheñ
- English
- the eyes
- Hindi
- हाथhāth
- English
- the hand
- Hindi
- पैरpair
- English
- the leg
- Hindi
- दवा लेनाdavā lenā
- English
- to take a medicine