У мене болить скроня.

Because Ukrainian often expresses physical states like pain with a structure that literally works more like At me ... hurts rather than I hurt ....

So in У мене болить скроня:

• у мене = at me / in my case
• болить = hurts
• скроня = temple

This is a very common Ukrainian pattern for things like pain, sensations, and possession:

• У мене болить голова = My head hurts
• У мене болять зуби = My teeth hurt
• У мене є брат = I have a brother

So even though English uses I or my, Ukrainian often uses у мене.

Мене is the genitive form of я.

After у / в in this kind of possession-or-state structure, Ukrainian uses the genitive:

• я = I
• мене = of me / me (genitive or accusative form depending on context)

In У мене болить скроня, the phrase у мене is a fixed and very common way to mean something like I have or my ... in natural English.

So this is not random: it is part of a normal Ukrainian grammatical pattern.

Because the verb agrees with скроня, which is singular.

• скроня = one temple
• болить = singular hurts
• болять = plural hurt

Compare:

• У мене болить скроня = My temple hurts
• У мене болять скроні = My temples hurt

The verb agrees with the thing that hurts, not with мене.

Because скроня is the grammatical subject of the verb болить.

In this sentence, the structure is basically:

• скроня болить = the temple hurts

Then у мене adds whose situation it is:

• У мене болить скроня = My temple hurts

So скроня stays in the nominative because it is the thing doing the grammatical action of hurting.

Yes, grammatically you could, but it is usually less natural in an ordinary situation.

• У мене болить скроня is the normal, idiomatic way.
• Моя скроня болить sounds more emphatic, contrastive, or context-driven, as if you are stressing my temple specifically.

Native speakers usually prefer the у мене + болить pattern for body pain.

Скроня means temple: the side of the head between the forehead, eye area, and ear.

It is a specific body-part word, so it is narrower than head.

For example:

• У мене болить голова = My head hurts / I have a headache
• У мене болить скроня = My temple hurts

So if the pain is specifically in that side area of the head, скроня is the right word.

You would usually say:

У мене болять скроні.

Changes:

• скроня → скроні (plural)
• болить → болять (plural verb form)

So:

• У мене болить скроня = one temple hurts
• У мене болять скроні = both temples hurt / temples hurt

Yes. In many cases, у and в are just phonetic variants of the same preposition.

Ukrainian often chooses у or в based on what sounds smoother with neighboring words.

So you may hear both:

• У мене болить скроня
• В мене болить скроня

Both are understandable, and both are used.
However, у мене is especially common and standard.

Yes. Ukrainian word order is flexible.

The most neutral order here is:

У мене болить скроня.

But you may also hear:

• Скроня у мене болить.
• Болить у мене скроня.

These alternatives can shift emphasis or sound more conversational, poetic, or contrastive.
For a learner, the safest and most natural default is:

У мене болить скроня.

Because Ukrainian often does not need a possessive adjective like my when possession is already clear from the structure.

English says:

• my temple hurts

Ukrainian often says:

• у мене болить скроня

That already clearly means the temple belongs to you, or more exactly, that this pain is happening to you / in your case.

This is very common with body parts:

• У мене болить рука = My arm hurts
• У мене болить спина = My back hurts
• У мене болять очі = My eyes hurt

The dictionary form is боліти, which means to hurt / to ache.

Болить is the 3rd person singular present tense form:

• боліти = to hurt
• болить = hurts

That is why it matches скроня:

• скроня болить = the temple hurts

This verb is extremely common for talking about pain in Ukrainian.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

u me-NE bo-LYT skro-nya

The main stresses are:

• мене́
• боли́ть
• скро́ня

A more careful approximation is:

[u meˈnɛ boˈlɪtʲ ˈskrɔnʲa]

A few tips:

• ть at the end of болить is soft.
• скр at the start of скроня is a consonant cluster, so say it smoothly, not with extra vowels.
• ня in скроня is soft, roughly like nya.

Yes, completely natural.

It is a normal everyday Ukrainian way to talk about pain in a specific body part. If someone has pain in the temple area, У мене болить скроня sounds natural and idiomatic.

It fits the same everyday pattern as:

• У мене болить голова
• У мене болить живіт
• У мене болить шия

So this is exactly the kind of sentence worth learning as a model.