"他的头很疼，需要休息。"
Translation:He has a headache and he needs to rest.
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This is strange...I put "His head aches, he needs to rest" and it was marked wrong; the correct answer was shown as "His head hurts he needs to rest."
Teng means "ache" so "his head aches" seems an appropriate option.
Ache isn't used so much as a verb in English the way you're using it. It's more idiomatic to use "hurts".
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I said that is head was sore and he needed to rest and was docked as well. To me hurt is a much more serious affliction and cannot be rested away.
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The 'he' doesn't need repeating. 'He has a headache and needs to rest' should be accepted. The Chinese doesn't repeat 'he' and it isn't necessary to do so in English either.
It is necessary, unless you connect the two independent clauses with a period or semicolon. Writing "He has a headache he needs to rest" is incorrect English. "He has a headache; he needs to rest" is fine.
would "he has a headache so he needs to rest" be correct? it was marked wrong for me
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Sorry, I misread... you were saying the sentence didn't have it... and here I was being clever. Dui bu qi.
Is 疼 an adjective related to pain? My head is (very) 疼...?
I hate how the English translation is completely different （他有...). A more literal translation would be much better to learn the individual characters and their meanings.
So 休息 is like resting when you are sick. And 轻松 is like resting from stressful work. Am I right?
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休息 simply means to rest, regardless the context. 轻松 can be used as a verb but more often is used as an adjective. (the characters literally mean "light" and "loose"). Here are a couple of sentences to give you the feel: 我要回家休息 - I will go home and rest. 我的工作今天比较轻松 - My work was relatively relaxed today.
"His head hurts," would be a more direct translation here.
Also general question: is the 很 necesarry here if 头疼 means headache as is? I was always just taught to say "我的头疼。"
You sound right, 很put emphasis, so the English translation should be 'His head hurts a lot' instead.('He has a bad/severe headache' should be 他的頭痛很嚴重, excuse me for the traditional Chinese used here)
I put "He has a headache, he needs to rest." That should've been accepted...
The "correct" answer I was shown ends with "he's rest", which is definitely not correct.
He's is a contraction for "he is." In that case, you mean to say "he is resting" or "he's resting."
For reference, "His head hurts very much, he needs to rest" was accepted
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The correct response is apparently "He has a headache , he's rest." I've reported it of course for incorrect English.
'He has a headache, he needs rest' was marked wrong. The English is correct and it is a correct translation of the putonghua, but it was marked wrong. Once again, English has multiple ways of saying something that can perhaps only be said one way in Mandarin, all of these variations should be accepted as correct.
My windmill: If you're typing what you hear without the word bank, there is no way whatsoever to distinguish between 他／她／它。Homophones shouldn't count against you when you're typing.
I put "He has a headache and he needs rest." Seriously? Why would they mark me wrong just because I forgot to add "to"?
I totally used the wrong character in my previous reply. Depends on if you use 很. For example 他的头很疼 = His head hurts or literally …"his of the head has pain". But there's no indication as to the cause of the pain. And then, 他头疼 = he has a headache.
“她的头很疼, 需要休息” rejected. C'mon Duolingo, you've accepted he, she, it on other audio-only questions.
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"he has a headache, he needs a break" not accepted although "break" is given as a possible translation by the hints.
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My answer is "He has a headache, he needs to rest." Basically, it should be accepted. And is removed because there is "," in the sentence. Haaaaayy.. sometimes Duo, you confused me.
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"his head is very ache, he need to take a rest." must be correct. you rewrite to me "His head hurts very much he needs to have a rest." I don't think it is correct sentence.
"His head is very ache" is not a correct English sentence. "Ache" is a verb. "His head aches" should be acceptable.