"Do the doctors' feet hurt?"

[cher-ola]

In other cases we talk about a part of the body hebben pijn. Why is it not "Doen de voeten van de artsen hebben pijn" here?

[El2theK]

I think you are confused. In combination with a body part that hurts you would use pijn doen, so:

• Mijn voet doet pijn - My foot hurts
• Zijn vinger doet pijn - His finger hurts

It is different when you say you have a pain somewhere.

• Ik heb pijn aan mijn rug - I have a pain in my back
• Zij heeft pijn aan haar hand - She has a pain in her hand

Obviously they are somewhat interchangeable. However, what you are doing now is combining pijn hebben aan and pijn doen, which doesn't work.

[jjbumpas]

why does: "doen de voeten von de doktor pijn" not work?

[El2theK]

• The doctors' feet = plural., so multiple doctors.
• The doctor's feet = singular, so one doctor.

Also von is German not Dutch, so you should have used van

[jjbumpas]

thanks for the answer. duolingo had a problem with using the work doktor instead of artsen. is doktor not ok?

[El2theK]

• Dokter - singular - 1 doctor
• Dokters or Doktoren - plural - multiple doctors

So if you use dokters or doktoren it will be accepted.

[jjbumpas]

thanks!

[OmarMOthman]

"Voelen de doketrs pijn?"

Why is this wrong?

[El2theK]

Voelen de dokters pijn? = Do the doctors feel pain?

[OmarMOthman]

LoL. I am sorry. I read it "feel" not "feet"! :-D

[alex394817]

When can you use the s possessive suffix? Doen de artsens voeten pijn was not accepted

[Joenaes]

Dokter should also be correct

[El2theK]

Dokters is.

[hedi76]

Is it possible to say " Pijn de voeten van de artsen?" like in German "Schmerzen die Füsse der Ärzte?"

[El2theK]

Not really, pijnen is not a verb, I'm not sure if it perhaps once was but now it just is pijn doen.

[hedi76]

Bedankt voor de antwoord. ☺

[El2theK]

Het antwoord

[hedi76]

Bedankt voor de correctie.

[Rania907728]

I've read through the thread but I'm still confused. I wrote 'doen de voeten van de doktoren pijn?' and it gives me the word that I've used wrong as 'zeer'. Is pijn and zeer the same thing?