My body hurts
A very common alternative, literally meaning 'I have body pain'. Use it interchangeably with 'Me duele el cuerpo'.
This means 'I am sore'. It's perfect for describing muscle pain after exercise or physical activity. Remember to match the ending to your gender ('-o' for masculine, '-a' for feminine).
Use this to emphasize that your *entire* body hurts. It means 'I feel pain in my whole body'.
I don't want to go to work today. My body hurts.
I think I have the flu. I have body aches and a fever.
After running the marathon, I was very sore.
Doctor, I feel very sick. I feel pain in my whole body.
'Me duele el cuerpo' and 'Tengo dolor de cuerpo' are universally understood and used across all of Latin America.
The phrases are the same, but the verb conjugations change for the plural 'you'. For example, a doctor might ask a group of patients, '¿Os duele el cuerpo?' instead of '¿Les duele el cuerpo?'
In addition to the standard phrases, it's very common to hear 'Estoy molido/a' (literally 'I'm ground up'), which means you are extremely sore or exhausted.
Similar to Argentina, 'Estoy molido/a' is frequently used to express being very sore and tired. You might also hear 'Estoy aporreado/a' which means 'I'm banged up/sore'.
Mi cuerpo duele. — This is a direct translation from English. While grammatically possible, it sounds unnatural. Spanish uses a different structure for pain with the verb 'doler'. The thing that hurts is the subject, and the person feeling the pain is an indirect object. Correct: 'Me duele el cuerpo' (Literally: 'The body hurts me').
Yo duelo el cuerpo. — This is incorrect because it confuses the subject and object. With 'doler', you don't 'hurt' your body; your body 'hurts you'. The pronoun 'me' (to me) is required. Correct: 'Me duele el cuerpo'.
Estoy dolor. — This confuses the noun 'dolor' (pain) with an adjective. You cannot 'be pain'. You 'have pain'. Correct: 'Tengo dolor' or use a proper adjective like 'Estoy adolorido/a' (I am sore).
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