Learn Hardcore Hebrew: אם עדיין כואב לך הראש, כדאי לקבוע תור אצל הרופא. - If your head still hurts, it’s better to make an appointment with the doctor.

Word

אם עדיין כואב לך הראש, כדאי לקבוע תור אצל הרופא.

Meaning

If your head still hurts, it’s better to make an appointment with the doctor.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

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Breakdown of אם עדיין כואב לך הראש, כדאי לקבוע תור אצל הרופא.

Why does Hebrew say כואב לך הראש literally like hurts to-you the head instead of something closer to your head hurts?

This is a very common Hebrew pattern for physical sensations.

In Hebrew, things like pain are often expressed with:

So לך literally means to you, but in English we usually translate it more naturally as your in this kind of sentence.

The structure is often:

Examples:

This is just the normal Hebrew way to talk about many kinds of pain.

Why is it כואב and not כואבת here?

Because כואב agrees with the thing that hurts: הראש.

Compare:

So the form changes according to the noun that is hurting, not according to the person in לך.