Tengo una herida pequeña en la mano, pero ya no sangra.

Both are possible, but they focus on different things.

• Tengo una herida means you have a wound. It points to a specific injury.
• Estoy herido / estoy herida means I am injured/wounded. It describes your general state.

In this sentence, tengo una herida pequeña en la mano is more natural because the speaker is talking about one specific wound on the hand.

In Spanish, adjectives often come after the noun, so herida pequeña is a very normal, straightforward order.

You can also say una pequeña herida, and that is also correct. The difference is mainly one of style and emphasis:

• una herida pequeña = neutral, descriptive
• una pequeña herida = often slightly more expressive or more focused on the smallness

So the version in the sentence is perfectly natural, especially in plain everyday speech.

Spanish often uses the definite article with body parts when it is already obvious whose body part it is.

So Spanish prefers:

• en la mano
• me duele la cabeza
• me lavé las manos

rather than always using mi, tu, su, etc.

Using mi mano is not wrong, but it usually adds emphasis, contrast, or clarity. In this sentence, the owner is obviously the speaker, so en la mano is the natural choice.

Ya no means no longer or not anymore.

It shows that something used to be true before, but is not true now.

So:

• ya no sangra = it is not bleeding anymore / it no longer bleeds

This tells us that the wound was bleeding before, but that situation has changed.

Sangra is the present tense of sangrar and means it bleeds / it is bleeding, depending on context.

Spanish uses the simple present more often than English uses is bleeding. So sangra can sound very natural where English would prefer a continuous form.

Here, ya no sangra is the most natural way to say it’s not bleeding anymore.

You could also say ya no está sangrando, but that sounds a bit more explicitly focused on the ongoing action. Both are understandable, but ya no sangra is simpler and very idiomatic.

The subject is la herida.

So the structure is basically:

• Tengo una herida pequeña en la mano, pero la herida ya no sangra.

Spanish often leaves the subject unstated when it is clear from context, so the sentence does not need to repeat la herida.

Spanish usually leaves out subject pronouns when they are not needed.

The verb form tengo already tells you the subject is I. So:

• Tengo una herida = I have a wound

Adding yo is possible, but it usually gives extra emphasis:

• Yo tengo una herida... = I have a wound...

In a normal neutral sentence, Spanish prefers just tengo.

Here, herida is a noun, meaning wound.

But herido/herida can also be an adjective meaning injured or wounded:

• Tengo una herida = I have a wound
• Estoy herido = I am injured
• Está herida = She is injured

So learners often notice the same form and wonder about it. In this sentence, it is clearly a noun because it comes after una.

Sometimes, yes, but the meaning changes a bit.

• herida = a general wound
• corte = a cut

So if the injury is specifically a cut, Tengo un corte pequeño en la mano would be a good option.

But herida is broader and does not specify exactly what kind of wound it is.

The h in Spanish is silent, so herida does not begin with an English h sound.

A rough pronunciation is:

• eh-REE-da

A few extra points:

• the stress is on ri
• the r is a soft Spanish r, not a strong rolled one
• in Spain, the d in the middle is usually softer than an English d

So herida sounds roughly like eh-REE-tha only if you incorrectly changed the d to z. Keep it as a soft d sound: eh-REE-da.