When you have finished this lesson you can:

• Ask about a person's health

• Say you're sick

• Say where it hurts

When someone sneezes you say:

When someone is ill you wish him/her a good recovery:

For Austrians and Germans, sickness and illness are very private. It's not usual to talk about this with strangers - except you are sitting in a waiting room at the doctor.

If you want to help the person you can ask:

If anyone asks you if you are well, you can say:

The answer to the question “Was fehlt dir?” could be:

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You can say where it pains with a composite noun:
                           
                            body part + “Schmerzen”

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Other ways to say that something hurts you are the verbs “weh tun” and “schmerzen”

It’s used in 3.pers.singular: tut weh        part.II: (hat) weh getan

and in 3.pers.plural: tun weh        part.II: (haben) weh getan

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Everyone who lives or works in Austria and Germany is a part of the public health insurance company, who will provide a kind of chipcard. Whenever you want to go to visit a doctor, you have to take the chipcard with you.

Austria and Germany have a very comprehensive health system that includes family doctor, specialists, hospitals, health services, free dentistry for children and more. But there is also the possibility to prefer a private insurance company.

If you need help, call the emergency center in Germany you have to call 112, in Austria you have to call 144.

! Remember: The prepositions “bei” and “zu” demand the dative.

In German, there are two words for hospital:

If you are in an accident you can go to the emergency room:

Or you call for an ambulance:

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If you need a special medicine you ask:

If you get a medicine you can ask the doctor or the pharmacist how often you need to take it.

What does it help against?

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