When you hit your funny bone, you say “Ouch” or swear because it somehow relieves the pain.

When someone else sneezes, you say “Gesundheit” or ‘God bless you’.

What do you say when someone else hits their funny bone on knee or elbow?

“Uffda” (OOF-dah) is a Swedish onomatopoetic word, a sympathetic exclamation when somebody else is in pain.

According to Howard Reingold in “They Have a Word for It , it combines “Ouch for you” and “Oh, I’m sorry you hurt yourself.”