How to Say ‘Go to hell!’ in German
Fahr zur Hölle!
fahr tsoor HUH-luh
[fahr tsoor HUH-luh]
💬 Usage Tip: Commands to one person often use the bare verb at the start: [fahr], [geh], [komm]. Here [zur] is just [zu der] shortened, as in [zur Schule].
🇩🇪 In Germany: [Fahr zur Hölle!] is a dramatic insult and less common in everyday speech than English [go to hell]. It sounds theatrical as well as angry.
Phrase Breakdown
Fahr
[fahr]
go / drive
Imperative of fahren; in this insult it means go, as in go to hell.
Fahr zur Hölle, ich rede nicht mehr mit dir!
Go to hell, I'm not talking to you anymore!
zur
[tsoor]
to the
Contraction of zu der, part of the phrase Fahr zur Hölle!.
Fahr zur Hölle, ich rede nicht mehr mit dir!
Go to hell, I'm not talking to you anymore!
Hölle
[HUH-luh]
hell
Literally hell; used in the common insult telling someone to go away angrily.
Fahr zur Hölle, ich rede nicht mehr mit dir!
Go to hell, I'm not talking to you anymore!
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