Did you ever break a bone? - English example sentence

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patgfisher August 23, 2014 August 23, 2014 at 11:37:11 AM UTC

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Welcome to Tatoeba!

It's a bit unusual to use "your bone" like this. It makes it sound like he has only one bone, and the questioner wants to know if he broke his one (and only) bone.

A bit better would be "a bone", "your leg", "your arm" etc. In conversation it would probably be in the perfect tense: "Have you ever broken a bone?"

tomo August 24, 2014 August 24, 2014 at 1:52:02 AM UTC

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Thank you, patgfisher. corrected it a little bit.

CK August 27, 2014 August 27, 2014 at 6:40:14 AM UTC

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I'd suggest the following more natural-sounding, more likely English sentence.

Have you ever broken a bone?

tomo August 27, 2014 August 27, 2014 at 8:04:43 AM UTC

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I know that using present perfect tense is more suitable but "did you ever" is commonly used among native speakers. Let me add it as a separate example.