Learn Spanish (Latin America): Me duele el pie hoy.

Doler (to hurt or ache) works just like gustar. Instead of saying 'I hurt my foot,' Spanish speakers phrase it as 'The foot hurts to me.' That is why we use the pronoun me (to me) and the verb matches the foot (duele).

The translation says 'my foot,' so why does the Spanish sentence use el pie (the foot) instead of mi pie?

In Spanish, when you talk about body parts or clothing, you usually use 'the' (el, la, los, las) instead of possessive words like 'my' or 'your.' Because you already said me (to me) earlier in the sentence, it is completely clear whose foot is hurting!

The dictionary verb for 'to hurt' is doler. Why is it spelled duele here?

Doler is a stem-changing verb. This means that when you use it, the o in the middle changes to ue in most forms. Since the foot (a single thing) is doing the hurting, we use the 'it' form: duele.

Why does the verb come before the foot here (duele el pie)?