Doler means ‘to hurt/ache’. It is a stem-changing -er verb (o → ue): duele (present), dolió (preterite), dolido (past participle), doliendo (gerund). It is mostly used in the third person with an indirect object pronoun, like gustar: me duele, me duelen.
Doler in use
Me duele la cabezaI have a headache
Me dolían los pies después del partidoMy feet were hurting after the match
¿Te duele mucho?Does it hurt a lot?
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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