The nature of the most common swear words per each country. Is this true for your country? Which swear words are the most commonly used?
Posted by Substratas@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 111 comments
Sector3_Bucuresti@reddit
No. Mostly sexual, or combined even. "Futu-ți Christosu mă-tii".
i_am_someone_or_am_i@reddit
What does that mean?
Sector3_Bucuresti@reddit
It uses the template "Fuck your mother's _____" and fills the blank with Christ.
Ndr2501@reddit
don't forget crosses, baptismal chalice, grave, wake, etc :))
i_am_someone_or_am_i@reddit
Ok thats a cool one.
Ok_Act_1498@reddit
🤭🤭🤭
Toofak@reddit
Fuck your mother's Jesus
RaiLeddit@reddit
No its actually a whole different category, the mother category. 99% of it it's literally "fuck your mothers X"
Jack55555@reddit
We win
bowlbettertalk@reddit
Can confirm, I’d much rather go fuck myself than get cancer.
DraculaTickles@reddit
Why is Lover a Geography a swear word in Russia?
EffectiveLibrary9601@reddit
The best part about Portuguese is swearing. You can make an infinite combo of swear words, without repeating them for minutes on end. Mostly related to sex, or you mother's sexual proclivities
Federal-Regret-5755@reddit
In Germany it’s sexual 100%
Realistic-Homework19@reddit
Scheisse
Federal-Regret-5755@reddit
Du Hurensohn?
Shoddy_Blacksmith480@reddit
“Get cancer” is unexpectedly hardcore for the Dutch
Immediate_Lobster421@reddit
Stai, ce înjurături religioase sunt în română în genere? Eu sunt din Moldova și mai mult folosesc înjurături rusești, dar organul genital al mamei și diverse animale tot sunt comune. Nu mă pot gândi la nimic religios la moment
yalnzaylak@reddit
All of them, sometimes combining themes to increase the hate. Gets pretty ugly
Lotofagos_@reddit
what's the most hateful turkish phrase you can cook up on the spot?
Xela8Xe@reddit
Just watch sweats get destroyed in LoL. You'll.. learn.
Or go to one of those old people cafes(?) that play tavla/backgammon. You learn some very interesting swear combos.
yalnzaylak@reddit
I don't want to get banned again 🥹
if you want to hear some though just enter any competitive game's turkish servers
LobsterMountain4036@reddit
British people also tend to blaspheme a significant amount as part of their cursing.
nitzsches_onlyfans@reddit
mother - god - sex
the whole trinity of swearing
richbabeera@reddit
its wild how no matter the country it always circles back to the same few things like thats the universal starter pack for insults apparently
ThrowRA-fantasy@reddit
I'd say Bulgarians most used swear is "майка ти даеба" which means "f ur mom" 🤣
Right_Map8151@reddit
“Sranje” is not the most popular in ex-Yu. Its obviously “Jebem ti mater”
PurpleMclaren@reddit
Picku mater
Ok-Patience6865@reddit
To je tipa "ёб твою мать"?
MrDilbert@reddit
Even as an exclamation, it loses soundly to "A u kurac..."
forgottenclown@reddit
What is "jebem ti boga", relegious or sexual?
prolapseenthusiat@reddit
Or "u picku materinu"
Te6kiGomna@reddit
Some westoid made this figure obviously.
Right_Map8151@reddit
Probably
jamesmb@reddit
Things that unite us 101. Rakija ?
Go_Improvement_4501@reddit
Exactly, needs to be changed to sexual
casual_philosopher02@reddit
whenever I get upset at something I will say fuck your house, or if someone upsets me its go fuck yourself. I will say it's accurate
Istar10n@reddit
Fuck your house sounds funny.
casual_philosopher02@reddit
my pen falls
EH FUCK YOUR HOUSE, makes sense
Istar10n@reddit
Yeah. I'd probably use one of the 40 penis related phrases in Romanian. Unless I'm feeling particularly pissed off about my pen falling, then I might use one of the harsher ones (but that's usually reserved for things that take 15+ min to fix).
Young_Owl99@reddit
We are worse, far worse believe me…
We explain where and how we fuck as well. It gets ugly, real ugly.
BogdanD@reddit
Hahaha us too!
casual_philosopher02@reddit
Ι am mild about it because I am a woman... if annoyed and betrayed, hide, my mouth becomes a sewage
Young_Owl99@reddit
It is better to be mild :)
It is not better to swear uglier anyway lol.
LengthBeneficial104@reddit
I think we use body parts (kut) more than disease (kanker).
What's the statistics on this??
zyraxes23@reddit
In Romania is both sexual and religious and the mother
Ashenveiled@reddit
wrong for russia. Suka has nothing to do with prostitution.
oerwtas@reddit
You can make anything a swear word in Turkish if you use the word in accusative or dative case. You even don't need to add a verb.
Accusative because the verb "fuck" uses it. Dative because verb "put in" uses it.
Ananı (your mother) avradını (your wife)
yedi sülaleni (your seven generation)
In the 90's it was common to swear even religious things in Thrace like:
kitabını (your book) peygamberini (your prophet)
Substratas@reddit (OP)
In Albanian, we have optative verb form which is used only to express wishes - cursing is also expressed as a wish.
99% of the swears related to sex are either about the target’s mother, sister of family.
Ujemegaz@reddit
We swear so in extreme situations. Normally we say fuck this phone, fuck this car when things don't work. We use the word fuck a lot, but when you say 99%, it is missleading, so fuck your 99% also. Plus, what is the matter with you, Albania this, Albania that. Fuck your Albania, man.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
My god, man, you haven’t pulled yourself together since when I called u out on lying in this sub about the word ”Greek” being a derogatory term in Albania.
Ujemegaz@reddit
I wouldn't if i remembered such thing. You have a skewed percepfion of Albania. Tgat is hiw we use the swear word fuck
howtobatman101@reddit
Well, in Romania we do want to have intercourse with one's mother's close relatives. Dead relatives, exclusively. It's more touchy. So you can fuți morții ei de hartă because is fake.
KestrelVO@reddit
Lmao 😂😂😂
KestrelVO@reddit
Oh boy, honestly, I wouldn't know of Romania because the swearing here is pretty vile as it incorporates all forms of swearing and it includes embedded curses and could drag people dear and known to them(including those that passed away), depending on the anger threshold you breach on that person. Swearing is a national sport here and is deeply ingrained in our culture, and every form in the map from other countries is present.
What we may have extra than other cultures is that we include perverting religious ceremonies(Christian Orthoroxy, of course, as it is the major religion here), adding in saints, and could involve that person's children, dead relatives, involving universal extreme harm directed to that person, besides all the sexual connotations and God/Jesus'/the cross' wrath upon them. We even do chain-swearing incorporating all of them and could lengthen to a nasty curse ad infinitum, like it's some latin lenthy curse you see in movies. I won't give examples here because I may or may not break the rules, maybe ask your local romanian(as I'm pretty sure we're on every corner of te globe by now). But damn it really sounds horrid trying to explain the process and everything rationally, in writing. O_o
Maybe one as it is somehow benign involving feces and the baptizing ceremony "Sa ma cac in cristelnita ma-tii!" - May I shit in your mom's baptizing bowl, implying time travelling back in time just to take a dump in their mother's baptizing bowl during or before the act of baptizing. Over here... it's said that priests REALLY know how to swear as they know all the saints and religious practices. 😅
But what I could say is that you'd have to REALLY piss off someone to get to the most aggregious parts in the open. Though, if I were to pick depending on the regions, and reducing it between two common forms, the common ones are "God's righteus wrath to screw you over" in the west and east and "regulating your dead relatives/relatives/parents, phallic dominance, blowings" in the south, I would say though that the most common are the sexual ones first, as they are universal. Those that include a person's children in their swears are absolute degenerates and thankfully there aren't many that do so. Though it's a continuous exchange and the common thematics might switch constantly and there aren't too many studies on this(who the hell even studies swearing/cussing?)
Piss a Romanian off too much, they increase in intensity and if you happen to find one with a somewhat religious upbringing(not necessarily a priest), oh man... if superstitious about manifestating reality through words and stuff, you might get a PTSD.
P.S: You could look up "Inundatii bucuresti/flood in Bucharest", "preot injurand in aeroport ca nu primeste viza/priest swearing in an airport because he couldn't get a visa" to get a glimpse of how that may sound like, the latter is mega religious and chain swears like an animal.
Can't believe I am sharing cussing from zero in Romanian just to find out the most common swear words. In Romania, the hate is real, as you may as well see here... xD
sneakingandpeeking@reddit
lol 100% accuracy for the Netherlands. But we usually combine it with the others mentioned. Like kankerhoer for example (cancer whore). Teringlijer. Tyfushomo. You get the point
Burlotier@reddit
In Greece it is about how stupid is a person or their value as a person like : “malaka” (dumbass)
This is the most common swear word said in and outside Greece
Ok-Patience6865@reddit
Ебать мой хуй 🤣 Когда, ёпта, "бля", "блять" и "блядь" различать научишься, тогда и попиздим за жили-были. Или ты на серьёзных щах думаешь, что уронив блядский кирпич на ногу, я буду орать "PROSTITUUUUTKA"?
Istar10n@reddit
I think they went with "naiba" / "dracu" - "the devil". I do think the various forms of fuck and "pula" (cock) are more common, though.
Here is a guide to the latter: https://utopiabalcanica.net/2019/12/05/20-ingenious-ways-to-use-pla-in-the-romanian-language/
Young_Owl99@reddit
Sexual, all sexual.
Prostitution related ones are also popular.
kuzux@reddit
Also it is possible to combine religious and sexual. Don't ask us how :D
i_am_someone_or_am_i@reddit
Sometimes feces, even though not as common.
SwordfishIcy1171@reddit
"m*l", "b*k" are most used swears. We use them so much that we forget them they are swears.
Nailedit07@reddit
im ashamed by understanding what you meant
i_am_someone_or_am_i@reddit
What? I am talking about stuff like "sıçtık" why are you ashamed?
Nailedit07@reddit
Dam, then im more ashamed now 😭
Young_Owl99@reddit
What were you thinking!!
Nailedit07@reddit
🤫🤫🤫
tatariko@reddit
Fecal based ones are so light when compared to the rest i don't even register them as swear words tbh
i_am_someone_or_am_i@reddit
Stuff like shit in english isn't that heavy either.
LaPutita890@reddit
Dang the Dutch don’t play around
Unusual-Fault-4091@reddit
Always find it interesting that the more religious countries do use the more sexual oriented swear words. Like when I first came to Costa Rica I was quite shocked to hear something like "Me cago en las tetas de la Virgen para que el niño mame mierda" (I think you can pretty much guess what this means without speaking Spanish) and even worse stuff, which even I, as a non-religious person, found quite shocking. But I suppose it’s just that the programme tackles and misappropriates things we often come across in our daily lives.
SunnyTheMasterSwitch@reddit
The Bulgarian one is wrong, probably for Romania too, according to what my Romanian friend taught me both countries go for the mother when swearing.
Toofak@reddit
Religious swearing was very common to the country side. Especially for older generations.
SunnyTheMasterSwitch@reddit
Where?
Toofak@reddit
Romanian country side.
"Morții ma-tii" seems to be a more modern derivative from "Cristoșii ma-tii" (Christ of your mother) or "Dumnezeii mă-tii" (Gods of your mother) or even "Paștele ma-tii" (Easter of your mother).
Now this religious slurs don't seem so offensive. But in the past they were the real shit if you wanted to offend someone.
SunnyTheMasterSwitch@reddit
Religion used to be integral part of society centuries ago and still is in some places so I can see that being the case.
rablador@reddit
Not that guy but in northern regions / transylvania its very common. Not sure about other parts. I think the moldova region also has a few swearwords involving saints and churches.
SunnyTheMasterSwitch@reddit
I mean I can't speak much about Romania but when my friend gets pissed he most often yells "Futu-ti mortii matii" which is not too dissimilar to the style Bulgarians use on mothers, but I know that when it comes to such phrases Romania has a lot of arsenal to choose from.
TR1CK573R_@reddit
As a Bulgarian, I didn't know "fuck his mother" was considered religious. I guess you learn new things every day...
nepeta_lejionn@reddit
Yeah but also sex n shit for Serbia
Miserable-Ground-379@reddit
Kurac...pička...govno...sisa...Rambo Amadeus
endergamer2007m@reddit
Huh? How is Muie/Pula not the most common swear word ever?
Stverghame@reddit
Serbia is definitely sexual.
mikelo77@reddit
Malaka
This_Music682@reddit
Gattuso Intensifies
mikelo77@reddit
Wassup Neighbor ❤️
Te6kiGomna@reddit
Bulgaria - religious? I am not convinced, its usually about the mother and/or the sexual orientation of the person cutting you off on the road.
Repulsive-Let-9827@reddit
I bet they took “По дяволите”, which i further bet is commonly used in prose.
TurdEye69@reddit
Or “куче на исляма” which although beautiful is quite niche
Commercial_Oil3899@reddit
Nikoga ne chuwah takowa nesho
Te6kiGomna@reddit
Хуй сплескан is in my top 3.
TurdEye69@reddit
Solid
dirty-biscuit@reddit
I think this is the opposite of solid
ViscountBuggus@reddit
I'm pretty sure "По дяволите” is what Google translated "shit" and "fuck" as until recently
Fred_Neecheh@reddit
All of the Balkans I reckon is like that
Early-Show2886@reddit
In Turkey also swear words against Family.
IshenazV@reddit
The word "siktir" (means fuck) is our sacred word. We use it when we're happy, surprised, scared, angry, when we forget something, when we remember something – it's a word we use everywhere, and it has variations too. For example: Hassiktir, eşeğin siki, hay sikeyim, ananı sikeyim, sitt... , siktiğime bak.
Spicy_Lemmon@reddit
In Bulgaria the most used one is "майка ти дейба" which translates to "fuck your mother". The one that was used for this map ("по дяволите" or literally translated "To the devils") is way too outdated and is considered as a more "polite" way of swearing.
MaskedMissMadness@reddit
Mostly sexual and religious, quite a few times combined lol I’d say even prostitution is more prevalent than feces (“Jebem ti kurvanjsku mater”, as a beautiful example of combining the two things into one 🩷)
SalamiHunter152@reddit
Ain't nobody using religious swears in the Balkans unless it's a poor translation from English to censor it.
Pretty-In-Scarlet@reddit
They categorize по дяволите / дявол го взел as religious because it mentions the devil
Ujemegaz@reddit
The most subtle swearing when we were kids was "t'qifsha fenë tate" meaning fuck hour religion
Substratas@reddit (OP)
I’ve never heard that curse. Which generation are we talking about?
”Motren, mamin, robt, fisin” are the ones used 99% of the time.
Ujemegaz@reddit
Such curses get you in trouble.
IamMefisto-theDevil@reddit
In România we use all of them!
It’s almost like the language was made for this: if you don’t swear five times every four words, you’re not doing it right.
It helps a lot when driving!
baxulax@reddit
Prostitution is not sexual?
Substratas@reddit (OP)
It’s occupational. 😂
NiceOil1588@reddit
The most dominant single swear word, all around the world, at all cultures is 'F.ck'.
StevenAdamsInDallas@reddit
It's a mixture here. We also have prostitution. We also have feces. It depends on the swear word.
Curva is universal.
i_am_someone_or_am_i@reddit
Every language has every variation of swearword I assume op is talking about the most pouplar ones.
Ceionius@reddit
It's pretty far off for Serbia atleast. Most common ones are variations of "fuck" - "your mother, your father, bread, Sun, God, everything but God, the minister, everything living and dead..."