"У меня болит в груди."
Translation:I have pain in the chest.
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I dont know when the comment was posted, but today(04/18/16) it is accepted(Was my first option) :3
I don't think I've ever said 'I have pain in the chest', It's always been 'I have a pain in the chest'. I'm going to report this one just in case.
I understand that people want various translations though I think it's good to have the literal translation even if we got it wrong then we actually learn something! (even though you would not necessary say it that way in English or another language perhaps) but it really helps to understand about declensions as much as understanding the syntax (sometimes). thanks!
I agree with your point here. However, I can also empathize with people who get frustrated when DL switches back and forth between literal translations and more conventional usages. I think some of this is unavoidable in the software, just the consequence of the virtual medium. But, in another question in this same unit, the translation did not accept "have pain" in favor of "hurts" for "болит/болят," and here it is the opposite. Not that one should expect perfection here, but I also understand why many people get frustrated with the inconsistency.
By the way, the literal translation of this is "something hurts inside my chest"
Well, maybe this is a bit impolite, but "a breast pain" in Russian is also "боль в груди". Maybe, add this option as acceptable?
I think it's because there's nothing in the Russian sentence about "feeling", only "having".
"I have pain in the chest" sounds weird. I would translate this as, "I have a pain in my chest."
This is poor English. It should be either: - I have a chest pain - or - I have a pain in my chest -
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Very unusual way of saying this. "My chest hurts" would be said 80% of the time. I have pain in my chest maybe 5% of the time. This answer less than 1% of the time.
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If you go by meaning, I'd think it would be acceptable, but if you are trying to preserve the grammatical structure (as far as is reasonable) probably not.
"Chest" is not the subject. For a translation in a language course it makes sense to try to keep the preposition.
Of course, "pain" is not in the original as a subject either, but it is a reasonable interpretation of the implied subject.
(See Edward Marr's comment in reply to Simon Kinsella's query.)
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Folks, can I use 'ache' instead of 'pain' here: I have (an) ache in the(my) chest? Thank you.
Yes, include the "an". I have an ache in my chest. For stomach it's usually an adjective "I have a stomach ache". For the head it became a compound word "I have a headache". I would suggest though, if you want medical attention - use pain
I got the refrigerator magnet version of this exercise - but does the algorithm accept "My chest hurts?" Seems like that would be an acceptable translation as well (since there doesn't seem to be a verb form of "to hurt").
