CURSING IN GERMAN
This was requested here (I’m so late, I’m sorry). This list is meant mainly to inform, I don’t mean to offend anybody. I’m not translating racial slurs. Some words would be considered slut shaming but these words are very common and I’m simply translating them so you know what they mean if someone calls you that. Obviously, this whole post is heavy in profanity. Please don’t blurt these out on the streets, none of them are family friendly. I’ll make a post on family friendly insults soon.
der Fluch - curse
fluchen - to curse
das Schimpfwort - curse word
die Obszönität - profanity
Curse words:
Scheiße! - Shit!
scheiß - shitty (adj.)
Dreck - dirt (used like shit, less common)
Drecks-(noun) - fucking (noun) (lit. dirt-(noun), often used if something doesn’t work the way it should or when speaking about a group of people, e.g. Dreckskinder, Drecksauto)
Scheißdreck! - Shit/Fuck! (often refers to an object that doesn’t work the way it should, but can be used generally as well)
ficken - to fuck
Fick dich! - Fuck you!
verfickt - fucking (adj.)
(gott-)verdammt - (god) damn
Verpiss dich! - Fuck/Piss off!
We also like to borrow the English ‘fuck’, though most Germans butcher the pronunciation and pronounce it more like ‘fack’. Like we do with other loanwords from English, we also germanify it into ‘abgefuckt’ which just means ‘fucked up’.
Insults:
der Arsch - ass
das Arschloch - asshole
der Wichser - wanker
der Ficker - fucker
der Hurensohn - son of a whore
die Schlampe - slut
die Hure - whore
die Zicke - bitch
der Schweinehund - bastard (lit.: swine-dog)
der Bastard - bastard
der Dreckskerl - scumbag (male)
