# What sayings are the equivalent of "Go F\*ck Yourself" in other languages? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 7, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419 "2010-10-07T22:38:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/1 "2010-10-07T22:38:09Z")
Calling on Dopers to share their multingual vulgarities: How would you convey the same sentiments as Go F_ck yourself (asterix because I’m not sure what policy is on profanity outside of the Pit) in other languages? It doesn’t have to translate exactly to that as long as it’s the same sentiment. For that matter, what terms are synonymous or convey the same insult as motherf_cker? Any language at all is fine, but if you use non Latin characters please also write it phonetically so we’ll have an idea how it’s pronounced, and if it has a meaning other than GFY or MF please translate. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/2 "2010-10-07T22:47:40Z")
Apparently in French it’s _va te faire foutre_. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/3 "2010-10-07T22:51:02Z")
In Czech, “do prdele,” literally translated, “go to ass.” ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/4 "2010-10-07T23:16:53Z")
Russian: Yep tvayu mat “Go fuck your mother.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/5 "2010-10-07T23:48:42Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > Apparently in French it’s _va te faire foutre_. Yes, and it literally means the same thing as the English expression. You can also go with _va chier_ which means “go shit”. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/6 "2010-10-07T23:49:51Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > Apparently in French it’s _va te faire foutre_. If I am seriously telling someone this, then I’m not very friendly with them, so “allez-vous faire foutre” might work better. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/7 "2010-10-08T00:30:11Z")
In Spanish, it’s “Que te jodas!” (Literally “Fuck yourself.”) One of the worst insults you can use in Spanish, with a similar force to “motherfucker,” would be “cabron.” Literally it means male goat, but it also implies “cuckold.” > [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > > [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > > > Apparently in French it’s _va te faire foutre_. > > If I am seriously telling someone this, then I’m not very friendly with them, so “allez-vous faire foutre” might work better. I think you misunderstand the use of the familiar vs formal forms in French (and other Romance languages). Using the familiar form (te) does _not_ necessarily indicate you are friendly with someone. You use it both in situations where you don’t _have_ to be polite (with family or friends), or where you don’t _want_ to be polite (when you are insulting someone). You use the formal form (vous) when you want to be polite. Saying “allez-vous faire foutre” is like saying “Kindly please fuck yourself, sir.” ---
**Author:** ![GiantRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@GiantRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GiantRat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/8 "2010-10-08T00:48:00Z")
Chinga te! or Chinga su madre! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/9 "2010-10-08T01:18:07Z")
I don’t have the Yiddish handy, but it translates as “Go shit in the ocean.” Leave it to the Jews to scruple when it comes to telling people to fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/10 "2010-10-08T01:33:20Z")
If you really, really want to tell someone to fuck off in Spanish, _Me cago en la leche de tu puta madre_ (“I shit in the milk of your whore mother”), used by Hemingway in _For Whom the Bell Tolls,_ is hard to beat. > [@GiantRat](#): > > Chinga su madre! Chinga _tu_ madre!😉 ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/11 "2010-10-08T02:40:49Z")
Italian is “va fanculo,” (sometimes rendered “vaffuncolo” which is more of an English transliteration) slang derived from “va a fare in culo” or “go do it in the ass,” and used exactly like “fuck you” or “fuck yourself” in English. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/12 "2010-10-08T02:54:04Z")
In Korean, it’s the equivalent of “Sheebol!” In Vietnamese, it’s “do mami”. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/13 "2010-10-08T02:59:08Z")
I can’t remember the Italian words for these (I was just a kid), and they are not “dirty” or obscene, but the English translations to the two I remember fondly are: \*You should be eaten by dogs and rats The boat that brought you over should have sunk\* At least they’re not the same old boring fuck variations. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/14 "2010-10-08T06:33:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > In Spanish, it’s “Que te jodas!” (Literally “Fuck yourself.”) I would use ¡que te jodan! or ¡que te den (pol culo)! There’s also ¡que te folle un pez! (may a fish fuck you), for which I’ve heard the variation ¡que te folle un pez… espada! (may a sword fish penetrate you - with the sword, of course) Joder has a double meaning of “fuck” and “spoil, make bad, break”; “estoy jodido” doesn’t mean “I’ve been having sex” but “I’m screwed”. And the version “may you get fucked up the ass” has additional connotations of wishing extra pain and humiliation. I’ve heard people say “que le den si no le gusta, y si le gusta, ¡que no le den!” - may he get fucked up the ass if he does not like it, and if he does like it, may he not! Chíngate is a single word, as is jódete. The pronoun of reflexive verbs is stuck to the rest, not separated. Italian, which I know I’m not spelling right, is vafa’nculo (go take it up the ass, again). ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/15 "2010-10-08T06:46:09Z")
In German, the most popular would be “Verpiss’ Dich” (piss off), or “Verpissen Sie sich” if you aren’t on first-name terms. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/16 "2010-10-08T06:46:11Z")
Once upon a time, I thought it would be entertaining to learn Hungarian. I never did, but I did find this: [http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/dictionary/Hungarian/1.html](http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/dictionary/Hungarian/1.html) It convinced me that while learning Hungarian might be a bit out of reach, their curses were certainly a lot more colorful thana anything English had to offer. lo’fasz a seggedbe! ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/17 "2010-10-08T08:12:13Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > For that matter, what terms are synonymous or convey the same insult as motherf\*cker? There is “va niquer ta mère!” (go screw your mother!), but I don’t think it’s still much used. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/18 "2010-10-08T08:32:52Z")
My girlfriend is Italian, and in addition to “va fan culo” (mentioned above), she uses “cazzo” (CAT-so) a lot, which literally means “dick” but is rendered as we would “fuck” - it’s a multi-purpose swear. Cantonese has a rich seam of swearing. The classic “fuck off” insult, in the argot of Hong Kong street language almost ineffective due to its constant repetition, is: _Diu leh_ Literally “fuck you”, though it’s commonly rendered as: _Diu leh lo mo._ Literally “fuck your old mother” but also used as an equivalent “fuck off”. Add _chao hai_ on the end for emphasis, to mean “fuck your old mother’s smelly cunt”. But there are others that have a similar purpose. Worse than fucking your mother is: _Pok gai._ Literally “fall down”, the implication being that if you dropped dead, nobody would remove your body. The ultimate “fuck off” style swear bomb of all, though, is: _Ham gaa tsaan._ Which means “your family die” - wishing death on the recipient’s family - and will likely get you punched in the face. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/19 "2010-10-08T09:02:11Z")
_jebi se_ (Slovenian, but probably also Croatian, Serbain etc.), which literally mean fuck you. In dutch we don’t have a from that includes the verb that means ‘fucking’ but we’d generally say _rot op_, shich I find hard to translate, but would mean something like ‘go and rot away’. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419/20 "2010-10-08T09:10:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > In Korean, it’s the equivalent of “Sheebol!”. Shi-bal is more like an exclamation: Fuck! or Shit! If you want to tell someone to go fuck themselves, you would say something like “yut-muh-guh” (go eat shit) or “kkuh-jyuh” (fuck off). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sayings-are-the-equivalent-of-go-f-ck-yourself-in-other-languages/556419.md?page=2)