Breakdown of Hoy el médico ha dicho que el corazón está bien.
el médico
the doctor
estar
to be (location/state)
bien
well / fine
hoy
today
que
that (relative pronoun, conjunction)
decir
to say / to tell
haber
to have (auxiliary)
el corazón
the heart
Questions & Answers about Hoy el médico ha dicho que el corazón está bien.
Why use ha dicho (has said) instead of dijo (said)?
In Spain, when an action happens in an unfinished time period like hoy (today), you use the present perfect tense (ha dicho). If the doctor had said it yesterday, you would use the simple past tense dijo.
I thought verbs ending in -ir usually have past participles ending in -ido. Why is it dicho?
The verb decir (to say) has a completely irregular past participle. Instead of decido, it becomes dicho. It is one of a handful of highly irregular participles you just need to memorize.
Why is it está bien rather than es bien?
Why does the sentence use el corazón (the heart) instead of a possessive like su corazón (his heart) or mi corazón (my heart)?
In Spanish, you generally use definite articles (el, la) for body parts rather than possessives (mi, tu, su) when the owner is obvious from the context.
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