To wonder if there are no decent swear words in other languages

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Based on the fact that football players of all nationalities seem to yell 'FUCCCCK' an awful lot.

A Croatian friend said their worst curse was translated to Your Mother Fucks Dogs .

Sorry I mean "A dog fucks your mother"

Somali- fuck your mother/father

Hooyo da waas/ Aabe ha waas

Arabic- your mother's c*nt. It's reeeeeeally bad.

Kiss Ommack

I know some good Dutch swear words. They are very satisfying

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I love swearing in Greek : malaka, pousti, malakopitouro, mounopano

And the best:: pisoglentis

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First thing I done when I arrived in germany was learn the swears. I always say verdammte Scheiße instead of swearing in English in front of DD

I think I read one in Romanian about fuck your dead Family members.

And in Vietnamese, you can always say du me which is fuck your mother.

I don’t know how you write this properly, but in dialect from Sardinia you also have figlio bagazza which I think is like bastard.

You have a lot of really good Greek ones as well. Some involve saints, so you can say I fuck your virgin Mary or something. Gamo tin panagia sou. Or ai sto kalo is like go to hell.

Fucking hate rain thank U for those, I didn’t know those. Especially the last one. Ha ha ha. I look innocent, so nobody will really teach me the bad things I want to know. I found the ones that I do know on the YouTube comments.

Can I just ask what is malakopitouro ?

All languages have some good swear words, but nothing beats the f word!! It's very cathartic!

@Solina Cheeky Bill Bryson! Maybe it wasn't Finnish. In the restaurant

Don’t be silly the Germans are great at swearing. You’d be amazed at the multifunctional use and meaning of “Bumsen” 😄

I found that Spanish have some great swear words 😂 never learned a jot out there really apart from puto and zorra. Oh, and when I mispronounced Scottish for a ‘rash after sex’. Spanish are awesome when it comes to swearing 😂

Russian is great for swearing. I met a guy once who could make himself perfectly clear in everyday matters by using nothing but horrible top-level swearwords and very creative grammar. He was a sort of poet - it takes real inspiration to just drop all usual lexicon and still make sense. Just inserting your blya, hahui, pizda & suka into conversation now seems lame in comparison.
The one language that has hardly any strong swearwords is Japanese. They say "crap" and similar, but it is not even close to f-bomb level. You can still be horribly rude and offensive but not by using specific words. It's a different style of being a dick.

German Flachwichse is an impotent wanker. Their swear words and insults are much more imaginative than ours!!!

I love swearing in Russian. And Estonian. And Finnish. But English fuck is actually not as offensive in other languages. Estonians are using “fucking” as “bloody”. Not at all as strong word as in English. The same is with Russian swear words said by Estonians - not as offensive.
Russians are rarely using English swear words because they have their own absolutely gorgeous ones.

I'm Spanish but my children are British born and bred and barely understand Spanish.
So when I burn or cut myself, stub my foot, drop something or the computer is being a cunt to me 🙈... I just yell "me cago en la putisima madre que te pario!!" "Joder!!" so I can vent without swearing in English in front of kids. 😜

Great thread.

French Canadian swear words are based on religion : tabernach, chalice, etc. Which sounds unsatisfying but actually hits the spot after a while.

A pp mentioned about other cultures saying fuck : same in French Canadien, 'fuck off' its used more like bog off /sod off. Surprising when niece said it in front of me

Suppose compared to most on here this is tame but kuk hue is dick head in Norwegian 😁

DD has started greeting us when we pick her up from a night out with "Hola putas". (she is six)

godammit strike out fail...

Welsh seems to be a bit rubbish on swearing. There's a bit of blasphemy, but no really satisfying swearing.

Great thread! But I need an actual, easy to refer to list

German has some swear words that sound great to my anglophone ear, but I don't think swear words in German have the power to shock that some of ours do.

They do if you are a native speaker. "Fotze" to a German speaker has every bit the impact that cunt has to an English speaker, more probably these days as it hasn't been as normalised as cunt has.
Bavarian has some great swear word, mostly mangling of religious words.

My neighbours have loud screaming arguments in their native language but interjected with some very colourful English swears. I've been tempted to go round and say at least have the manners to hold the whole thing in one language, either native tongue and no one will know what you're on about or all English and we can tell if that amount of swearing is justified. However yesterday's screaming matches seemed to be about tinfoil and clingfilm - I'm assuming neither translates. But I'm inclined to agree with Mrs Neighbour, clingfilm is a fucker.