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You don't need to say 'पैर के', the word 'उंगली' covers any digit, and you can let context do the work for you. =D
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I moved to India 2 years ago and i have heard people, when speaking English (or "Hinglish"), call their toes "foot-fingers". It does give me a few chuckles.
I have been in an animated debate with my four year-old niece who was hell-bent on convincing me that only the big toe is a toe and the rest of them are 'leg fingers'.
I'm a big fan of Vibram Five Fingers shoes. People in America (including myself, even though I love to wear them because they feel so good) tend to think they look very odd but people in India were very fascinated with them and told me they looked cool. This linguistic quirk seems to fit in with all that somehow.
I wear them every day in Delhi for long walks. Indians say they look cool to be polite. But we do look like monkeys no doubt about it.
This is one of those little things that makes me like native speakers more. Toes being foot-fingers, potatoes being earth-apples (not in Hindi, but others), etc.
I got this correct, but I confess I do not understand why every word is used multiple times. "My toe toe toe is aching is aching is aching is aching." . . .??
मेरे | पैर | की | उँगली | में | दर्द | हो | रहा | है =
My | foot | 's | finger | in | pain | be | ing | is
Ahhh! Got it - thank you! I hope I become better accustomed to figure these things on my own as I progress.
why is "there is pain in my toe" wrong? Maybe it doesn't sound 100% natural but i still think it should be accepted
in another question the correct solution to मेरे दिल में दर्द है was "there is pain in my heart". So why is it right in thet case but not this? Is it because of हो रहा?
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दर्द हो रहा है is present continuous. So 'is aching', and you didn't translate that tense. I think that might be why.
Because पैर की उँगली is singular. ”My leg’s finger”. मेरे does not imply plural here, but is used since में makes it take the oblique case
You're right about पैर की उंगली being singular but the reason है is used instead of हैं is because दर्द is singular.
Oh, thank you so much for the correction! I’m really sorry for writing the wrong thing I thought I knew what I was talking about
उँगली = finger, अंगूठा = thumb
पैर की उँगली = toe, पैर का अंगूठा = big toe
I have the exact same answer as Pierre891640; "I'm having pain in my toe" । Is there any mistake in the English sentence ? Or, please point out my mistake ।
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It is not standard English to say "I am having pain". Most people would say "I have a pain ..." I think, if you had a recurring problem, (meaning that you have it, and then you don't, and then you have it again, etc ) then you could say, for example, "I'm having headaches all the time ... ". In this case, it means that your problem is "having pain", but perhaps at that very moment of saying that you are having pain, it could mean that you don't feel the pain. It is like saying "I"m taking a Hindi class at school." At that moment you might be at home talking to someone on the phone. It means that during the current year or semester you are enrolled in the class. Another example would be "I'm having a party" (maybe next week). Or "I'm seeing a doctor about my problem of having pain." In India it is quite common to hear people say things like "I am having a book and a pen", but this is not correct English. When we refer to possession, we say " I have. (I have two brothers. I have a small house. I have a motorcycle.) An example of when to say "having" is when you are hosting an event or arranging a situation. "I'm having friends over this weekend. I'm having an exchange student come to live with us for half a year." 'I'm having my house painted.' Hope this helps explain some of the problems of "having".
I agree with your remark. It is even worts in french cause we do not have the progressive present. But... If we want to express a chronic pain, I think that "having pain" would be more specific to describe a recurant pain, not a one time discomfort like when you shoot a chair leg bearfoot.
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I'm still tripping up, saying "मेरी पैर की उँगली", because I think it's "my [toe]," but because it's "[my foot]'s finger" it's masculine. Maybe someday I'll learn this.
