Questions & Answers about אם עדיין כואב לך הראש, כדאי לקבוע תור אצל הרופא.
This is a very common Hebrew pattern for physical sensations.
In Hebrew, things like pain are often expressed with:
- כואב לי = it hurts me / I have pain
- כואב לך הראש = your head hurts / your head is hurting
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:
- כואב + ל־someone + body part
Examples:
- כואבת לי הבטן = my stomach hurts
- כואב לו הגב = his back hurts
- כואבות לי הרגליים = my legs hurt
This is just the normal Hebrew way to talk about many kinds of pain.
Because כואב agrees with the thing that hurts: הראש.
- ראש is grammatically masculine singular
- so the verb/adjective form is כואב
Compare:
- הראש כואב = the head hurts
- הבטן כואבת = the stomach hurts
- הרגליים כואבות = the legs hurt
So the form changes according to the noun that is hurting, not according to the person in לך.