At the doctor

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• 병원hospital / clinic
• 의사doctor
• 증상symptom
• 열fever
• 기침cough
• 콧물runny nose
• 약medicine
• 처방전prescription
• -아/어서because / so (causal)
• 며칠 됐어요?how many days has it been?
• 언제부터요?since when?
• 입원hospitalization

Uitdrukkingen

• 열이 나서 왔어요.I came because I have a fever
• 기침이 나요.I have a cough
• 어디가 불편하세요?Where do you feel unwell?
• 며칠 됐어요?How many days has it been?
• 약을 처방해 드릴게요.I will prescribe medicine for you
• 많이 아파요.It hurts a lot / I am very sick

Veelgemaakte fouten

• ✗열이 있어서 왔어요
  ✓열이 나서 왔어요

  Use 열이 나다 (fever comes out / I have a fever), not 열이 있다 which is grammatically odd here

• ✗기침을 나요
  ✓기침이 나요

  기침이 나다 uses the subject particle 이 because the cough is the subject that comes out

• ✗배가 아파기 때문에 왔어요
  ✓배가 아파서 왔어요

  For simple spoken reasons, -아/어서 is more natural than -기 때문에 at A1 level

• ✗며칠이 됐어요?
  ✓며칠 됐어요?

  The 이 particle is not needed here; 며칠 됐어요? is the standard natural form

• ✗약 드릴게요
  ✓약을 처방해 드릴게요

  A doctor prescribes medicine (처방해 드리다), not just gives it (주다); add 을 after 약

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