dolió

Dolió is the third-person singular preterite form of the Spanish verb doler, meaning “it hurt.” It is used to indicate that someone or something caused pain in the past. In Spanish, doler behaves like gustar: the thing that causes the pain is the subject, and the person who feels it is expressed with an indirect object pronoun (me, te, le, nos, os, les).

Examples illustrate its use in past events: “Me dolió la cabeza” (My head hurt). “Ayer le dolió la muela” (Yesterday his/her tooth hurt). With plural subjects, the form becomes dolieron: “Me dolieron las piernas” (My legs hurt). The imperfect form dolía/dolían describes ongoing or repeated past pain: “Me dolía la espalda cuando caminaba mucho.” The present forms are duele/duelen (it hurts).

Dolier derives from the Latin dolere, meaning to suffer, and is related to the noun dolor, meaning pain. Doler is a verb that often appears in constructions with indirect object pronouns, so the affected person is expressed indirectly while the thing causing pain becomes the syntactic subject. Dolió is not used as a noun or standalone name; it is a verb form. In everyday language, doler can refer to physical pain and, by extension, emotional discomfort, depending on context.