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Me duelen mucho los pies.

Me duelen mucho los pies.
My feet hurt a lot.
From Lesson 49:Verbs like gustar (encantar, doler)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Me duelen mucho los pies.

Why is it duelen instead of duele?
The verb doler (to hurt) works just like gustar. The sentence is structurally built as 'The feet cause pain to me.' Because los pies (the feet) is plural, the verb has to be the plural form duelen.
Why does the Spanish sentence use los pies (the feet) instead of mis pies (my feet)?
In Spanish, it is standard to use the definite article (el, la, los, las) rather than possessive words like mi or mis when talking about body parts. We already know whose feet are hurting because the sentence starts with me (to me).
Since los pies is plural, shouldn't mucho be pluralized as muchos?
If you were saying 'many feet', you would use muchos. But here, mucho means 'a lot' and it is describing the verb duelen (how much they hurt). When it describes an action, it never changes its ending.
Could I change the word order and say Los pies me duelen mucho?
Yes, that is grammatically correct! But with verbs like gustar and doler, Spanish speakers naturally prefer to put the thing doing the action (in this case, los pies) at the end of the sentence.

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