Questions & Answers about Me duelen los ojos hoy.
Why is the verb duelen (plural) if the translation starts with "My"?
Why do we use me instead of yo?
Because yo means "I" (the doer of the action). With verbs like doler or gustar, the person feeling the pain is the receiver of the action. We use the indirect object pronoun me to show that the pain is happening to me.
Why does the Spanish sentence say los ojos (the eyes) instead of mis ojos (my eyes)?
In Spanish, when you talk about body parts, you almost always use the definite article (el, la, los, las) instead of possessive words like mis (my). The pronoun me earlier in the sentence already makes it obvious whose eyes are hurting!
The dictionary form is doler, so where does the "ue" in duelen come from?
Doler is a stem-changing verb. When you conjugate it in the present tense, the o in the stem changes to ue. That is why it becomes duele for one thing hurting, and duelen for multiple things hurting.
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