I read the following in a description a patient's visit to the doctor.
Der Arzt schaut in ihre Augen, ihren Mund, und in die Ohren.
Why die Ohren but ihre Augen?
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This is just a variation to reduce repeating words. This also would be correct, but contains 3 times "ihre":
Der Arzt schaut in ihre Augen, ihren Mund und in ihre Ohren.
Another possibility is this:
Der Arzt schaut ihr in die Augen, den Mund und die Ohren.
But here the word ihr is not a possessive pronoun, but dativus commodi.
answered Oct 19, 2020 at 6:14
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4In general, German uses articles instead of possessive pronouns for body parts much more frequently than English. There are a some fixed expressions,"take her by the hand, look her in the eye", but you "look in her ears", never "look her in the ears".– RDBuryOct 19, 2020 at 10:26