Mehrdad
Can I say "my finger pains" instead of "my finger hurts" ? I have never heard of "my finger pains"....but my finger is in pain
2019年11月18日 15:56
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Standard American English - no. "my finger pains" isn't correct. (However, there are some dialects of English that do say that. And everyone would understand you. Just most people in the US would think that it sounds wrong.)
2019年11月18日
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A quick Google Ngram search of British and American English for "my leg/back hurts" and "my leg/back pains me" shows that "my leg/back pains me" is specific to American English and relatively rare. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=my+leg+hurts%2Cmy+leg+pains+me%2Cmy+back+hurts%2Cmy+back+pains+me&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmy%20leg%20hurts%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmy%20leg%20pains%20me%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmy%20back%20hurts%3B%2Cc0
2019年11月18日
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"My finger pains me" is rare and a bit archaic or dialectical, but I've seen it. I've never seen "my finger pains" without a direct object. "My finger hurts" is much, much more common.
2019年11月18日
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