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- "Boli mnie głowa."
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In Russian, Boli mnie golowa, is what you would say if you were commanding your head to start hurting. Hahaha!
Really? I've never heard that before. Only "У меня болит голова" / " У меня голова болит".
Yes, really. Мне болит живот. Мне болит рука. My stomach hurts [to me]. My hand hurts [to me]. You can also say У меня головная боль. I have a headache. And of course, your way is obviously correct.
The Russian National Corpus disagrees with you.
0 results for your construction, 79 for mine.
I guess it's a colloquialism then, or a Ukraine dialect. I've heard it my whole life. There is a huge Russian-speaking community here in Los Angeles, and a lot of us of my generation of immigration are from Ukraine. Since Ukrainian is much closer to Polish, this could be a Ukrainianism in our dialect of Russian. But I've heard мне болит, ей болит, ему болит, тебе болит, etc., spoken my whole life, to say that something hurts. So the Russian National Corpus can suck it.
In the 19th century, boleć + [dative case] was quite common in the Kresy region and also among Poles living in Lithuania. But nowadays, Standard Polish only accepts the accusative, hence it should be "boli mnie".
