Health & Body
ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ದೇಹದ ಭಾಗಗಳು
Describing pain and symptoms in German routes through the dative case you just learned — 'my head hurts' literally becomes 'to me the head hurts', a construction Kannada already uses for exactly this kind of bodily sensation.
Grammar Comparison
ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ ಹೋಲಿಕೆ
weh tun + dative ≈ Kannada's dative-experiencer pattern
Mir tut der Kopf weh. (My head hurts — literally 'to me the head does pain')
ನನಗೆ ತಲೆ ನೋಯುತ್ತಿದೆ. (to-me head hurts — the experiencer takes dative, the body part is the grammatical subject)
Both languages resist making 'I' the subject of a pain sentence — instead, the person experiencing pain goes into the dative (mir/ನನಗೆ), while the body part itself becomes the grammatical subject that 'does the hurting'. This is the same dative-experiencer logic behind Kannada's whole 'to me it exists/happens' family of constructions you met back in the sein/haben lesson — pain, like possession, is something that happens TO you in both languages, not something you actively do.
Vocabulary
ಪದಗಳು
- Kannada
- ತಲೆtale
- English
- head
- Kannada
- ಕುತ್ತಿಗೆkuttige
- English
- throat / neck
- Kannada
- ಕಣ್ಣುkannu
- English
- eye
- Kannada
- ಕಿವಿkivi
- English
- ear
- Kannada
- ಮೂಗುmoogu
- English
- nose
- Kannada
- ಬಾಯಿbaayi
- English
- mouth
- Kannada
- ಹಲ್ಲುhallu
- English
- tooth
- Kannada
- ಹೆಗಲುhegalu
- English
- shoulder
- Kannada
- ಕೈkai
- English
- arm
- Kannada
- ಕೈkai
- English
- hand
- Kannada
- ಬೆರಳುberalu
- English
- finger
- Kannada
- ಹೊಟ್ಟೆhotte
- English
- stomach
- Kannada
- ಬೆನ್ನುbennu
- English
- back
- Kannada
- ಹೃದಯhrudaya
- English
- heart
- Kannada
- ಕಾಲುkaalu
- English
- leg
- Kannada
- ಮೊಣಕಾಲುmonakaalu
- English
- knee
- Kannada
- ಪಾದpaada
- English
- foot
- Kannada
- ನನಗೆ ... ನೋಯುತ್ತಿದೆ.nanage ... noyuttide.
- English
- My ... hurts.
- Kannada
- ನನಗೆ ತಲೆ ನೋವು ಇದೆ.nanage tale novu ide.
- English
- I have a headache.
- Kannada
- ಅಸ್ವಸ್ಥasvastha
- English
- sick
- Kannada
- ಆರೋಗ್ಯವಾಗಿaarogyavaagi
- English
- healthy
- Kannada
- ವೈದ್ಯ / ವೈದ್ಯೆvaidya / vaidye
- English
- doctor
- Kannada
- ಔಷಧಿ ಅಂಗಡಿaushadhi angadi
- English
- pharmacy
- Kannada
- ಔಷಧಿaushadhi
- English
- medicine
- Kannada
- ಶೀತ ಆಗುವುದುsheeta aaguvudu
- English
- to catch a cold
- Kannada
- ನನಗೆ ಸರಿ ಇಲ್ಲ.nanage sari illa.
- English
- I don't feel well.