English: Difference between ache, pain a hurt

1. Difference between ache, pain and hurt
An ache is discomfort that continues for some time. It is usually associated with a specific part of the body
such as a headache, a stomachache, a toothache and an earache.
After you exercise the next day your muscles will probably ache. An ache is usually not extremely strong so
you can try to ignore it.
Painis usually stronger more sudden and more difficult to ignore. You would feel pain when you cut yourself
or hit your head on something.
If you exercise and you injure yourself break a bone or tear a muscle you would feel a sudden pain.
We also have the expression aches and pains which describes general and various physical discomforts.
You're 90 year old grandfather might complain about all the aches and pains he has at his age.
The word hurt is a little different, because it is usually used as an adjective or verb not a noun. To describe
an ache or a pain you could say my ankle hurts, meaning I have a pain or ache in my ankle, my neck hurts
or my shoulders hurt. Hurt is also used to mean injure, for example:
 ‘Don't play with that knife, you could hurt yourself’,
 ‘He was badly hurt in the car accident’
Finally all three of these words can be used to refer to emotional pain as well as physical pain. For example:
‘My son is in prison. The situation is causing me a lot of heartache’.
Heartache is emotional anguish, deep sadness.
‘It took her years to move past the pain of her divorce’. In this sentence, pain refers to emotional injury
emotional discomfort.
‘I was extremely hurt that he didn't invite me to his wedding’. Hurt in this sentence means upset or sad.