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чувствовать/по- себя (хорошо, плохо) Use this verb only for discussing health.

-- Как ты себя чувствуешь?
-- Ты знаешь, плохо.

The perfective почувствовать себя focuses attention on the beginning of the feeling.

Я почувствовала себя плохо и пошла домой. I began to feel bad and went home.
Я надеюсь, что вы скоро почувствуете себя лучше. I hope that you will feel better (will begin to feel better) soon.

As in all verbs with the suffix -ова- the suffix is replaced with -у- in the conjugation:

чувствовать/по- себя: чувствую себя, чувствуешь себя, чувствует себя, чувствуем себя, чувствуете себя, чувствуют себя

Болен - здоров To say someone is sick, use the short-form adjective болен (больна, больны). To say someone is healthy, use the short-form adjective здоров (здорова, здоровы)

Сегодня Гриша болен, но вчера он был здоров. Today Grisha is sick, but yesterday he was healthy.

Болен чем. To indicate what someone is sick with, use the instrumental case of the illness.

Маша больна гриппом. Masha is sick with the flu.
Саша болен ангиной. Sasha is sick with strep throat.

Кому плохо A common way to say you feel bad or sick is Мне плохо with the dative case. The past tense is marked by было: Вчера мне было плохo - yesterday I felt bad. The future tense is marked by будет: Если завтра тебе будет так же плохо... If you feel as bad tomorrow...

Что с кем? If you look ill or say you don't feel well, a Russian might ask Что с вами? Что с тобой? What'st he matter with you?

Простыл The past tense of the perfective verb простыть is used to indicate that someone has a cold. Literally, one is saying that the person caught a cold and still has it.

Он простыл. He caught a cold/He has a cold.
Она простыла. She caught a cold/She has a cold.
Они простыли. They caught a cold/they have a cold.
You can also use the short-form adjective простужен lit. chilled through. Володя простужен, и Вера простужена. Они простужены.

У меня насморк. Another way to say that someone has a certain illness is to use the у кого construction you already know, without есть.

У Маши грипп. Misha has the flu.
У Гриши ангина. Grisha has strep throat.
У них кашель. They have a cough.

In the past and future tenses, a form of был or будет must be used.

У Маши будет грипп. Masha will have the flu.
У Гриши была ангина. Grisha had strep.
У них был кашель. They had a cough.

У меня болит голова. I have a headache; my head hurts. Use the expression У меня without есть.

The body part that hurts is the grammatical subject of the sentence, and the verb must agree with it. For this verb, then, you need learn only the third-person singular and plural forms in the present and past tenses.

Сейчас у меня болит рука (нога, ухо, голова, живот), болят руки (ноги, уши). Now my hand (leg, ear, head, stomach) hurts.

Вчера у меня болел живот (глаз), болела голова (нога), болело ухо (колено), болели уши (глаза). Yesterday my stomach (eye), head (leg), ear (knee), ears (eyes) hurt.

Меня тошнит. Меня вырвало. In the Russian equivalents for I am nauseated - Меня тошнит and I threw up - Меня вырвало, the person is expressed in the accusative case. Since these sentences have no grammatical subject for a verb to agree with, the verb is always in the оно form.

Меня, Тебя, Её, Его, Нас, Вас, Их, Этого студента, Эту студентку, Наших друзей + тошнит, тошнило, рвёт, вырвало.


Well, that was a pile of rules. Most of which were easily extrapolated from the dialogues and the translations and patterns, but now I know.

And now I has Sucker Punch on DVD. I'd forgotten how kind of awesome that movie is. Which it really is. Chick powers of badassery activate. Also pretty decent for kicking my ass to do my exercises this morning. Legs are trying to kill me now, what with the running and the jumping and the running up on benches and so on. Still need to find something to jump over, maybe stumps. The only problem with that is that the grass is slippery. Well, I'll think of something.

I have all the do not want to go to work today you have no idea. At least incoming isn't as busy as it looked at first. Outgoing, that remains to be seen until I get to work. I have a pile of stuff to do over the next month and a half and too little time to do it in, so I have to kick my own ass to be efficient and we all know how hard that is. Ugh.

Someone tell me if I want to be on Google+ or not? The more I look at the Facebook model, the more I wonder why the hell I would ever bother with it. I can't think of anything I'd use it for. I have this thing for social networking, I refuse to get on Facebook which is where all the commercial enterprises go for pandering to their client/customer base, so. Why do I need Google+? Enlighten me, o internets!