Pharmacy — cold, stomach, and “for a traveler”

Two feelings and a traveler line. They will name the box.

In this lesson you will

• Ask for 風邪薬 and describe 熱 / 喉
• Add お腹が痛いです as a second fact
• Say 旅行者なんですが so they choose something gentler

Today’s scene

How it works

The scene is one counter, two symptoms, one identity line. 風邪薬はありますか is ありますか on a product. Then they interview the body: 熱はありますか. 少しあります. 喉も痛いです. も adds the second place that hurts.

これをどうぞ hands you a box. 食後に飲んでください is てください plus a time: after meals. あと signals a second problem, not a new customer. お腹が痛いです. 今日からですか checks when it started.

旅行者なんですが is the traveler line. な attaches to 旅行者 before んですが. The が here is the soft “but / so” that invites help, not the subject が from beginner grammar drills. 市販薬です means it is over-the-counter. 水と一緒にどうぞ — with water.

You are not a doctor in this room. Name the feeling. Let them name the box. If they say 病院に行ってください, that is the next lesson’s building, not a failure of Japanese.

A pharmacy in Japan is quiet and specific. They will not let you grab a box and vanish if you look unsure. They will ask about fever and food. This lesson is one counter: a cold, a stomach, and the sentence that you are traveling. We will not recite a catalog of drugs. The drug is their job. The body is yours.

風邪薬はありますか is the door. 風邪 is a cold. 薬 is medicine. Together they are the product people ask for when the whole head is involved. Then they interview. 熱はありますか. 熱 is fever. 少しあります is “I have a little.” ありません if you do not. Do not say はい if you only have a runny nose. They are matching symptoms to a box that may include fever reducers.

喉も痛いです. 喉 is throat. 痛いです is the い-adjective “hurts” plus です. が marks the part that hurts: 喉が痛いです. も replaces が when it is a second part: 喉も痛いです. This is the same も as “also” in beginner-02, now on a body. 頭が痛いです, 歯が痛いです — same frame. Learn the frame, hang the part.

これをどうぞ is the hand-over. 食後に飲んでください. 食後 is after meals. に marks the time. 飲んでください is “please drink / take.” 食前 is before meals. 寝る前 is before sleep. You do not need all three tonight. You need to hear に as a time hook so you do not swallow the box in the street.

あと is “and also,” a bridge, not a new すみません unless you already turned away. お腹が痛いです. お腹 is the everyday stomach/belly. 腹 alone is shorter and can sound rough. Keep お腹 in this shop. 今日からですか checks the start. 昨日からです, 今朝からです — から as “from,” beginner-16, now on a day.

旅行者なんですが、大丈夫ですか is the line this lesson exists to put in your mouth. 旅行者 is traveler. な links a noun to んです. が here is the soft trailing “but / so…” that invites the other person to take care of the rest. It is not the subject が. You are saying: I am a traveler, so is this all right? They hear: maybe no Japanese family doctor, maybe a train tomorrow, maybe a sensitive stomach from new food. 市販薬です — over-the-counter. 水と一緒にどうぞ — together with water.

If they ask アレルギーはありますか, name the thing: ペニシリンです, エビです, or ありません. If you already take something, 薬を飲んでいます. ている is current. This keeps two drugs from fighting.

If they say 病院に行ってください, go. That is not a failure of your Japanese. That is the room telling you it is the wrong room. travel-15 will stand in the hospital and the koban.

Do not mime a whole opera. Do not demand 強い薬. Do not use anime sick-voice 死にそう. Do not photograph other customers’ boxes.

Korean speakers: 배가 아파요 is a close cousin of お腹が痛いです. Good. Keep が, not 은, on the part that hurts in Japanese. Chinese speakers: 发烧吗 is 熱はありますか. 热 and 熱 look related. Say ねつ. English speakers: “I have a cold” is often 風邪です, while 風邪薬はありますか asks for the product. Spanish speakers: 熱 is fever, not “hot weather.” 暑いです is the weather.

Practice the three facts in order: cold medicine, throat, stomach, then 旅行者なんですが. If you can say those while sitting, you can say them while dizzy. Next, if you are well, we take manners into the onsen — a room that will ask about tattoos and towels before it lets you in.

Masks are normal in this shop when you cough. You can buy one here: マスクはありますか. Same ありますか. They may put it on the tray without a speech. Take it. A traveler who names a fever and then coughs across the counter is asking the pharmacist to work without a shield.

Pregnancy, blood pressure, and other people’s medicine are facts you should say if they are true: 今、薬を飲んでいます, or 妊娠しています if that is your situation. We did not put those in the dialogue because Mina’s scene is a cold and a stomach. The frame is the same: a noun or a ています, then let them choose the box. Do not hide a drug you already take because the Japanese feels long.

If they offer two boxes, どちらが弱いですか — which is weaker — is a kind question for a traveler stomach. 弱い is weak. 強い is strong. You asked 大丈夫ですか as a traveler. Weak is often the right door.

French and German speakers: 食後 is after meals, not “food back.” に marks the time. Portuguese speakers: 痛いです is the feeling. あります is for fever as a thing you have. Two different verbs, one body. Vietnamese speakers: do not map every ache onto 痛い. A runny nose is often 鼻水が出ます. You do not need that tonight. You need 喉 and お腹.

Read the box in the hotel with a translation app if you must. The pharmacist already chose it for a traveler. Take it with water, after food, as they said. Tomorrow, if you are worse, you already own 病院に行ってください as a sentence you can obey. That obedience is also Japanese.

If you cannot remember 風邪薬, point at your throat and say 薬はありますか. They will start the interview anyway. The interview is the scene. The product name is a door, not the house. Take the paper bag, keep the receipt, and drink water in the hotel, not on the sidewalk in the sun. The body is still the topic. The street can wait.

Keep the box in the hotel, not in a hot bag on a train. 食後に飲んでください was a time and a place. Obey both. If you feel worse at night, the koban light and the hospital line from travel-15 are already in this series. You do not need a new personality for 2 a.m. You need the sentences you already said in the afternoon.

Name the body

風邪薬はありますか。
熱はありますか。→ 少しあります。
喉も痛いです。 / お腹が痛いです。

Traveler, then how to take it

旅行者なんですが、大丈夫ですか。
食後に飲んでください。
水と一緒にどうぞ。

Sentences you can use

Close, but not this

OK お腹が痛いです。
NG 腹、死ぬ。

Drama Japanese. A pharmacist wants a body part and 痛いです, not a death scene.

OK 旅行者なんですが、大丈夫ですか。
NG 外国人だから強い薬ください。

Do not demand a strong drug because you are foreign. Ask if a normal box is all right.

Say it out loud

If the box is not enough, travel-15 is the hospital and the police box. If you feel well tomorrow, travel-09 is the onsen: tattoos, towels, and whether it is open — language for a room with rules.

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