It hurts

Some words you hope you won't need often — but when you do, you need them fast. Today the plain, honest word for hurt — so you can name a pain the moment it lands.

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1 · Say this

mi dura (mee · DOO-ra) I hurt. / It hurts (me).

mi is I (Lesson 1). The new word is dura — hurt, pain, ache. On its own, mi dura is the whole-body version: I'm in pain. Simple, and exactly enough.

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2 · A closer look: where it hurts

dura pairs naturally with the body words you already own. Name the part, then say it hurts:

Amatu	Says	Means
kara	"KAH-ra"	heart (Lesson 41)
oko	"OH-koh"	eye (Lesson 47)
kasi	"KAH-see"	hand (Lesson 59)

Put a body word in front of dura and you've located the ache:

mi kasi dura My hand hurts.

(mi kasi is my hand — the body word leans on mi, just like my name did back in Lesson 12.) The same shape covers the rest: mi oko dura — my eye hurts — and the tender one, mi kara dura — my heart hurts, the ache that isn't only in the body.

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🌍 One word, two kinds of pain Lots of languages let hurt carry both the scraped knee and the broken heart — English does it too ("that hurt"). Amatu keeps the one word dura for both, so mi kara dura reads as real ache, not just metaphor. The body and the feeling share a vocabulary, because they share the experience.

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⚠️ Watch out dura is "DOO-ra" — the u is the long "oo" of boot, stress on the first beat. Don't let it drift toward English "durra" or "dura-ble"; both vowels stay pure, doo-rah.

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3 · Your turn

Out loud:

1. I hurt → mi dura
2. My hand hurts → mi kasi dura
3. My eye hurts → mi oko dura
4. My heart hurts → mi kara dura

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4 · Tonight's phrase

mi dura — I hurt — and name the spot up front: kasi dura, oko dura, kara dura.

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30-second check

Cover the page. (1) Say I hurt. (2) Say my hand hurts. (3) Say my heart hurts. Three for three? You can now name a pain the instant it shows up — whole-body, a single part, or the quiet kind that lives in the heart.

⬅️ Back: Lesson 59 — The hand · ➡️ Next: Lesson 61 — Recap