My textbook uses romper for body parts (to break a bone) but my friend told me that native speakers never use romperse for body parts and that fracturarse should be used or possibly quebrarse and that romperse is for objects like a piece of paper. Is this so?
romper / fracturar / quebrarse
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Hello and welcome.
It is true that we don't/shouldn't use "romper" for bones, bur "fracturar/quebrar". But a piece of paper doesn't really se rompe, but "se rasga" (it tears).
It is true that we don't/shouldn't use "romper" for bones, bur "fracturar/quebrar". But a piece of paper doesn't really se rompe, but "se rasga" (it tears).
Then your friend is not from Spain, for sure, because here we use "romperse" all the time to refer to broken body parts (me he roto la nariz, se le ha roto la muñeca, etc...). "Fracturar" is fine to describe broken bones, but it sounds a little too technical, and usually only medical staff use it.