Croatian puts the pain the other way round
English makes the person the subject: I have a headache. Croatian makes the BODY PART the subject and the person the OBJECT, in the accusative:
Boli me glava. — literally the head hurts me.
So the verb agrees with the body part, not with you. One thing hurting takes boli; more than one takes bole.
| Boli me glava. | My head hurts. |
| Boli te zub. | Your tooth hurts. |
| Boli ga noga. | His leg hurts. |
| Bole me oči. | My eyes hurt. |
The pronouns are the accusative clitics you already know — me, te, ga, ju — and they sit in second position, as always.
| My head hurts. | Boli me glava. |
The body
| glava | head |
| ruka | hand, arm |
| noga | leg, foot |
| prst | finger |
| oko | eye |
| uho | ear |
| usta | mouth |
Two of these have irregular plurals worth meeting now: oko becomes oči and uho becomes uši. And usta is plural already — Croatian has no singular mouth, so it always takes a plural verb: Usta su mala.
| The mouth is small. | Usta su mala. |
At the pharmacy
lijek is medicine. You buy it in the ljekarna, which is the same root.
| This is my medicine. | Ovo je moj lijek. |
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