French swear words. What does the French verb “foutre” mean? Foutre is an old French verb, now used for “faire” or “mettre”. It’s common in slang and insults.
I donāt mean to offend anybody, and Iām sorry to be using vulgar French swear words, but as a French learner, it is important that you understand these French slang expressions, and even more so the intent behind them. However, I would encourage you to stay away from them.
If French slang sounds natural from a French native, slang is always stronger and has a much bigger impact when it is used by a foreigner.
1 . The French Verb Foutre: Conjugation
The French verb āfoutreā is very common in French. Itās actually a very old verb, which nowadays mostly means āfaireā or āmettreā⦠and other less attractive meanings!
Itās part of a zillion French expressions, all of them being more or less vulgar, definitely slang⦠It can be used as a swear word, a curse an insult as well.
- Je fous
- Tu fous
- Il fout
- Nous foutons
- Vous foutez
- Ils foutent
PassĆ© ComposĆ©: jāai foutu
Adjective: foutu/e/s
Noun: un fouteur, une fouteuse
Old French noun: le foutre = sperm
Most of the time, the verb āfoutreā can be replaced by āficherā to make is a bit more colloquial⦠Je māen fiche = I donāt care.

2. French Swear Expressions With the French Verb Foutre
Here are a few uses of the verb āfoutreā.
Notice āfoutreā can be reflexive āse foutreā ā and please forgive the vulgar expressions but all these are very common, and you will come across them in movies etcā¦
1. Elle ne fout rien de ses journĆ©es ā she doesnāt do anything all day long
2. Cette fille est vraiment bien foutue ā this girl has a really nice body
3. Il a laissĆ© lāappartement en foutoir ā he left the apartment in a total mess
4. Je māen fous ā I donāt give a shit
5. Cāest le roi du je-māen-foutisme ā impossible to translate but literally, this means he is the king of the āI donāt give a shitā movement
6. On sāen fout comme de lāan quarante ā another crazy idiom meaning āwe donāt careā: literally, āwe care as much about it as the year fortyā.
7. Jāen ai rien Ć foutre ā I donāt give a ratās ass
8. Cāest foutu ! ā itās the end, itās finished, itās dead
9. Foutue bagnole ! fucking car!
10. Fous-moi la paix ā let me be!
11. Je ne sais pas ce que jāai foutu de mes clĆ©s ā I donāt know what I did with my keys (foutre as faire)
12. Ils ont foutu le camp avec lāargent ā they ran away with the money
13. Tu te fous de moi ? Tu te fous de ma gueule ? Are you joking? (at my expense) ā Are you pulling my leg? ā Are you kidding me?
14. Ce sont des fouteurs de merde ā they are trouble makers
15. Ć la fin, il sāest foutu en lāair ā in the end, he killed himself
16. Ce film māa foutu les jetons (slang) / ce film māa foutu les boules (vulgar) ā this movie scared the shit out of me
17. Va te faire foutre ā fuck off (much stronger in French ā a real insult, never to be used lightly)
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