Usage Note
Tête fills countless idioms: avoir mal à la tête is a headache, en avoir par-dessus la tête means to be fed up, and faire la tête is to sulk. A tête-à-tête is a private one-on-one, while se creuser la tête means to rack one's brains.
Examples
"J'ai mal à la tête."
Natural Translation
I have a headache.
Literal Translation
I have pain to the head.
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