Health and the body (болен, здоровье)

Ill and Healthy

Болен is a SHORT adjective, like рад and занят — predicate only, never before a noun. It agrees: болен (m), больна (f), больны (pl).

Он *болен.* — He is ill.

Здоровый is its opposite and an ordinary long adjective, so it behaves normally: здоровый человек.

Health Itself

Здоровье is the noun — health. It is neuter, and Russians use it constantly, not least in toasts.

At the Doctor

Температура means both temperature in general and, on its own, a FEVER:

У меня температура. — I have a temperature.

Russian says this with у + genitive, the possession frame you already know — literally "at me a temperature", with no verb at all.

Живот

Живот is the stomach or belly. It is worth knowing early for the doctor's surgery, and it is a false friend for anyone who knows another Slavic language, where the same root means life.

This is the stomach, and this is the face.
Это живот, а это лицо.

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