Foul language: Common swear words and phrases

🇩🇪 Scheiße! is very common in everyday speech for frustration or pain, but it's still vulgar. Safer milder options are Mist! or verdammt!.

🇩🇪 Verdammt! is noticeably milder than Scheiße! or fick dich!. People use it fairly widely for annoyance without sounding maximally aggressive.

🇩🇪 Mist! is one of the safer swear-like words in German. It sounds more like mild frustration than a real insult.

🇩🇪 Arschloch! is a strong direct insult, not casual banter unless you know the person very well and the tone is obviously joking. Said seriously, it can escalate fast.

💬 With verbs like verpissen, German often puts the main verb first in a command and the little partner at the end: Verpiss dich!. The same pattern shows up in Hau ab! and Komm her!.

🇩🇪 This is very aggressive and confrontational. Don't treat it as playful slang unless you're absolutely sure the relationship supports that.

🇩🇪 Halt die Klappe! is a harsh way to tell someone to shut up. It's much ruder than Sei still or Ruhe bitte.

🇩🇪 Using du here is not really about friendly informality; in insults, du is the normal direct form. The force comes from the insult itself, not from breaking a formality rule.

💬 Blöde changes shape because Kuh is feminine, so the describing word ends in -e here. Same pattern: blöder Typ, blödes Auto, blöde Kuh.

🇩🇪 This insult is strongly gendered and aimed at women. It can sound especially nasty because it attacks the person and their gender at the same time.

💬 Dumme changes to match Sau, which is feminine. Compare dummer Hund, dumme Sau, dummes Zeug.

🇩🇪 Sau as an insult is very coarse and harsh. Even when not meant literally, it lands stronger than a mild word like Idiot.