Learn Spanish (Spain): ¿Te duele el pie?

¿Te duele el pie?

Does your foot hurt?

Breakdown of ¿Te duele el pie?

to you / yourself (reflexive) / you (direct object)

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Questions & Answers about ¿Te duele el pie?

Why does it say el pie (the foot) instead of tu pie (your foot)?

In Spanish, you usually use the definite article (el, la, los, las) for body parts instead of possessive words like "my" or "your". Because the sentence includes te (to you), it is already obvious whose foot is hurting!

Why is the verb duele used instead of a "you" form?

The verb doler (to hurt) works a lot like gustar. In English you ask "Does your foot hurt?", but in Spanish the structure is literally "Does the foot cause pain to you?". The foot (el pie) is the subject doing the action, so the verb is conjugated in the "it" form (duele).

What does the word Te do in this sentence?

Te means "to you". Since the foot is the thing causing the pain, te is used to tell us who is receiving that pain.

How would I ask this if both of my friend's feet were hurting?

You would need to change the foot to plural (los pies). Because the subject doing the hurting is now plural, the verb must also change to the plural "they" form, becoming duelen. The sentence would be: ¿Te duelen los pies?