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INTRODUCTION
Once you are in the pharmacy, you will need to explain how you feel so that the pharmacist will give you the right medicine. In this lesson, we’ll work on explaining symptoms, so you can get the proper treatment and any medicine you may need.
GRAMMAR POINT
Let’s try to make a list of all the possible things you might need.
In Czech, “cold medicine” is lék proti nachlazení.
(slow) Lék pro-ti na-chla-ze-ní.
Lék proti nachlazení.
To say “Cold medicine, please” in Czech, you can say..
Lék proti nachlazení, prosím.
Let’s break it down by syllable.
(slow) Lék pro-ti na-chla-ze-ní, pro-sím.
Lék proti nachlazení, prosím.
The first word lék means “medicine” or “drug”.
(slow) Lék.
Lék.
Then you have proti, which means “against”.
(slow) Pro-ti.
Proti.
After that we have nachlazení, meaning “cold”.
(slow) Na-chla-ze-ní.
Nachlazení.
And at the end, we have prosím which means please.
All together that is:
(slow) Lék pro-ti na-chla-ze-ní, pro-sím.
Lék proti nachlazení, prosím.
Literally this means “Medicine against cold, please.” Or “Cold Medicine, please.”
If you need to explain your symptoms, for example, that you have a “headache”, you’ll want to say “I have a headache.” In Czech, this is..
Bolí mě hlava.
Let's break it down.
(slow) Bo-lí mě hla-va.
Now let's hear it once more.
Bolí mě hlava.
The first word is bolí, meaning “to hurt”.
(slow) Bo-lí.
Bolí.
Next we have mě which means “I”.
(slow) Mě.
Mě.
Both words together, Bolí mě, literally mean “hurts me”.
After this, we have the word hlava, meaning “head”.
(slow) Hla-va.
Hlava.
All together, we have bolí mě hlava, which literally means “my head hurts” or means something like “I have a headache.”
(slow) Bo-lí mě hla-va.
Bolí mě hlava.
If it’s your stomach that’s hurting, you can say
Bolí mě žaludek.
Let’s break it down by syllable and hear it one more time.
Bolí mě žaludek.
(slow) Bo-lí mě ža-lu-dek.
We just replaced hlava, which is the word meaning ‘head’ with žaludek, the word for “stomach”.
(slow) Ža-lu-dek.
Žaludek.
Let’s hear the entire sentence again.
Bolí mě žaludek.
This literally means “My stomach hurts.” or “I have a stomachache.”
This pattern is easy to use for other symptoms too – just replace the word žaludek with the words for other body parts.

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