A patient is concerned that the food they ate made them sick.
Hopefully a trip to the doctor’s office will offer them some relief.
Grab your textbook to dive into this dialogue!
The exercise that goes along with the audio dialogue is in the 2nd edition Genki 1 Workbook on pg 112 Section A.
The Japanese transcript is in the Genki Answer key book on pg 71, Chapter 12 Section W12-A #2
患者 B (Patient): I have a stomach ache since last night.
医者 (Doctor): How is your fever? (Do you have a fever)
患者 B: I don’t think I have a fever . . .
医者: I see. Open your mouth please. Yes, open more . . . your throat is fine.
患者 B: But my stomach extremely hurts and . . .
医者: What did you eat yesterday?
患者 B: I didn’t eat dinner. For lunch I ate tempura, sashimi, and udon.
Do you think the sashimi was bad?
医者: No you ate too much. (That’s why you have a stomach ache)
Nothing is wrong with you (your health).
患者 B: I see.
医者: It’s best not to eat so much. Get well soon.
Grammar That Confused Me
Grammar 1: What does けど at the end mean?
熱はないと思いますけど。
Is this an example of the speakers intention to give their partner a chance to speak (pg 236 in Genki I textbook) (2 examples with けど in this dialogue)
Grammar 2: What does it mean when くて is at the end of the sentence?
でもすごくおなかが痛くて…。
Grammar 2 Clarity: I’ve read that it’s used to express a cause or a reason but I’m not 100% clear of the usage.
Grammar 3: I wasn’t sure what this sentence meant:
どこも悪くないですよ = Not anywhere bad??
In Genki 1 2nd edition it just says どこも means not anywhere (pg 235)
So I was terribly confused.
Grammar 3 Clarity: Someone later told me that in this example どこも + negative means “Nothing is wrong with you (your health)”
Still not 100% sure how どこも works
Grammar 4: How would you translate the last line:
あまり食べすぎないほうがいいですよ
“It is better not to eat too much not often?”
The addition of あまりis throwing me off
あまり = Not much / not often
食べすぎないほうがいいですよ = It is better not to eat too much
Your Turn
Can you relate to this patient, have you ever ate so much that you got a stomach ache?
Where there any tricky areas in this section that you need clarification about?
If so, feel free to leave a comment below!