ok i got this idea from “Rude English words you yanks dont get” everybody post foreign swear words you know it can always help if you can swear at someone in tehir native tongue no?
Shit
merde - french
scheisse - german
kuso - japanese (this can also mean fuck just any sort of rude exclaimation)
masturbation(various rude words for the act of not exact translations of)
roubler - german
hitorigokko - japanese
Hungarians, as I always say, don’t have swear words they have swear phrases. They’re a nation of poets, and their swearwords always have a lovely visual motif.
A few examples-
Lófasz a seggedbe- Horse cock up your arse.
Kurva anyád bassza meg a kecskét- hard to literally
translate, but the general gist would be- your mother,
the whore, fucks goats
and one I learnt recently, not too complex, but I like it
Faszkalap- fuck hat
I hardly ever get the chance to say them in anger, but I like to showcase them at parties when people ask me how learning Hungarain is going
The swedes swear so mildly (in translation anyhow). Sexual swearwords are fairly uncommon, although calling girls whores or cunts has become more common in recent years.
Dra åt helvete - Go to hell (equivelant to fuck off)
Fy fan! - By the devil! (equiv. for fucks sakes)
Satan! Javlar! - Satan! Devils! (equiv. shit/fuck)
BTW, I am of French Canadian descent, and thought it might be relevant to mention that when saying “merde” in Canadian French, the E is pronounced like “ah” and there’s just a little bit of a rolled R. Needless to say, the Parisian pronounciation is quite different.
oh mighty gods (typo; mods) please dont shut this down there is no reason to do so we are simply trying to apread the languages of all the races across the world
I have none to add beyond the (pretty basic) ones in the first couple of posts.
However, I wanted to note that I am a huge fan of the tremendously inventive, and almost poetic, swear phrases such as those highlighted by hanza in the Hungarian.
Anyone can come up with long and convoluted swear phrases, but to think that a phrase such as “your mother, the whore, fucks goats” is as common to the Magyars as “wanker” is to us, pleases me greatly.
So, any more of these you wish to add (making sure they are a standard term of abuse in regular usage), please do so!
I was taught this my my chinese friends in Singapore. Oh what a giggle it was at the time. Two days later, they forced me to repeat these words to her Mom, how embarassing. Still after much prompting, I blurted them out and everyone enjoyed a big laugh.
Just clean fun right?
Two weeks later, on the occassion of the many aged aunties visiting, as they held court in the kitchen, I was summoned, and requested I say ‘it’.
I was stunned, I stammered and hummed and hawed before the venerated old aunties, it seemed until the entire household was hollering just say it. I looked to my friend for support, she just shrugged and said ‘just say it’. So I did. And, of course, it was the most amusing thing they’d ever heard, my embarassment notwithstanding. They forced it out of me one more time before I managed to flee the room.
The closest translation I’ve been able to get is,
‘Go suck your mother’s infected cunt.’
Enchanting story, yes?
Years pass, whenever I see these people they still want to hear it. They taught me other words, useful words. They don’t seem terribly interested that I still know those.
I knew a Chinese guy at work who told me that when he first came to the U.S. a couple months before, a friend had told him a German phrase (I don’t know what it was) and said it meant “hello.” My friend went and said it to a German guy, only to find out that it was actually swearing.
