Explaining your symptoms

Vocabulário

• 症状symptom
• 发烧to have a fever
• 咳嗽to cough / a cough
• 头疼headache
• 恶心nauseous / nausea
• 持续to continue / persist
• 检查examination / to examine
• 处方prescription
• 严重serious / severe
• 好多了much better
• 哪里不舒服where does it hurt
• 血压blood pressure

Expressões

• 我头疼了两天了，越来越严重。Reporting a worsening symptom with duration
• 从昨晚开始发烧，现在38度。Giving fever onset and current temperature
• 我感觉有点恶心，不想吃东西。Describing mild nausea
• 医生，我嗓子很疼，咳嗽不停。Telling a doctor your throat symptoms
• 除了头疼，我还有点流鼻涕。Listing multiple symptoms
• 检查结果出来了，没什么大问题。Reassuring someone test results are fine

Erros frequentes

• ✗我头疼了三天。
  ✓我头疼了三天了。

  Duration sentences need a second 了 at the end to show the state is still ongoing — one 了 after the verb and one at the sentence end.

• ✗从昨天我开始咳嗽。
  ✓从昨天开始，我一直咳嗽。

  从...开始 is a set phrase — do not insert the subject between 从 and 开始. Put the subject after 开始.

• ✗症状是头疼和发烧和恶心。
  ✓症状是头疼、发烧和恶心。

  Use the Chinese enumeration comma 、 between list items, and only use 和 before the last item.

• ✗我感觉有点很疼。
  ✓我感觉有点疼。

  有点 and 很 cannot both modify the same adjective — pick one. 有点 is softer; 很 is stronger.

• ✗医生，我的症状很严重不严重？
  ✓医生，我的症状严重吗？

  The A不A question pattern and 吗 cannot be used together — choose one question form.

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