What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?

Teletubbyzurückwinker.

Someone that waves back at the Teletubbies.

Triangeljosti.

The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.

A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument\)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.

So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.

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كول هوا

"Kawl hawa"

Literally "eat air" in Arabic

Means shut up

Salame

Yes that's right, it means salami and in spanish it's used to call someone an idiot. Soft insult, but I use it, and saying so and so is a salami in english would only get me weird looks.

In Quebec French, people sometimes say of someone who's not particularly bright:

"His mom rocked him/her too close to the wall."

It's just so... vivid and random.

While not my native language, in Japanese, many insulting things to call people are often translated as English curses, but actually are just increasingly disrespectful ways to refer to the listener. The actual translation for them is just "you" but not respectful. This might not be a complete list, but I got most of them at least.

Anata - Polite way of saying "you" but not often used in conversation except between spouses or lovers. It's preferred to use the listener's name instead.

Kimi - Rude in a polite setting, but not explicitly disrespectful, necessarily.

Omae - Now you're on the level of picking a fight, but good friends often use this for each other.

Temee - Extremely disrespectful

Kisama - Extremely disrespectful

Kono yarou - Extremely disrespectful

In Chile, not really an insult but rather a lament over how dumb people are sometimes:

"Si los weones volaran, pasaría nublado" (If dumb people could fly it would always be cloudy)

German: "Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen" - Lightning shall strike you while you're taking a shit

Best insult ever, imo.

"Spargeltarzan", which is German for "asparagus Tarzan". Basically someone who is physically weak, but tall and lanky.

I also like "Lauch", which just translates to "leek", the veggie. Oh, and "Bohnenstange", which means bean stalk. We do seem to have quite a few vegetable-related insults in German, now that I think of it...

Yiddish is not my native language but I think this one is so good it absolutely deserves a mention:

All of your teeth shall fall out except one that gives you a massive toothache.

In polish, calling people with the neutral gender. It's a grave insult which implies lack of agency and dehumanisation, and thank to some rightwinger assholes in parliament is also a specific transphobic insult now.

While in english it's completely normal thing to say if you're not sure of a person's gender.

So definitely not my "favourite", i would never said this to anyone in polish and i occasionally get a hiccup of misgendering someone in english because of that, but interesting from language point of view.

Portuguese is full of these, but how about vai pra casa do caralho.

Which roughly translates to "go to the dick's home", basically another way of saying "go fuck yourself", but even more vulgar somehow.

My personal favourites from Finnish.

"Ei ole kaikki muumit Muumilaaksossa" "Not having all the Moomins in Moomin Valley" Used for people who are either stupid or lack sanity. There are other variants of this and Moomin one is not older than a couple of decades.

I find our version of Grammar Nazi pretty great. We call them comma fuckers.

"Ei voi kauhalla ottaa jos on lusikalla annettu" "You can't take with a ladle if it was given with a spoon". This refers also to a lack of something, usually a lack of intelligence or sense.

Băga-mi-aș pula-n coliva mă-tii de să-mi sară coaiele din bomboană-n bomboană

This is a highly niche one in my native language as well, as one must also know what is colivă - it's basically a desert that we eat at funerals with m&m-sized candies in it as well. So it roughly translates let me stick my dick in your mother's coliva so hard that my balls jump from candy to candy

In Bulgaria we have the very creative insult „You’re as sharp as an edge on a round table”, which I find pretty amusing

Here are a few Austrian ones:

"Häferl" (Cup): someone with anger management issues

"Du rüttelst am Watschenbaum" (You are shaking the slap tree): I'm close to deliver the fruit of said tree to you.

"Ohrwaschlkaktus" (Ear cactus): Someone with large, protruding ears

"Saubauch" (Hog belly): A way of telling someone that they are fat and dumb at the same time. But in a nice way.

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In Tamil: சோத்துல உப்பு போட்டு தான தின்ற?

Translation: Don’t you add salt to your food?

Context: This is when somebody doesn’t react/listen/change no matter how much they are insulted. The other party asks if they add salt to their food, or if they only eat bland food, and thus have lost all emotions and have become as bland as their food.

It’s a bit difficult to explain, but the general belief is that food reflects your emotions and reactance and moods. Bland food - emotionless, spicy food - easy to anger, etc.

"Κλάσε μου τα αρχίδια" which literally stands for "fart my balls" in Greek.

It's a way of telling someone to go fuck himself.

German Korinthenkacker (currant shitter) is someone who tries to win an argument by looking at unimportant details.

My favorite has to be zkundyksicht, it comes from "z kundy ksicht" which literally means "a face [that came] from a cunt". "Z" = from, "kunda" = cunt, "ksicht" = a rude way to say face.

三小 in Taiwanese literally translates as “what sperm?” But it means “what the fuck”.

The disapproving and insulted look of a Canadian when you've done something so stupid that they can't even apologize for it.

It's when there's no apology or jokes, just the look, that you know you've become the stupidest fucker north of these here prairies and bears ya know.

• Γαμώ το σπίτι σου (literally: fuck your house) I guess this basically means to fuck your whole family
• Γαμώ τη Παναγία σου (literally: fuck your Saint Mary)
• Γαμώ το Χριστό σου (literally: fuck your Jesus)
• Να μου κλάσεις τον πούτσο (literally: fart my dick) I guess this means "I'll fuck you from behind"
• Πάρ'τα 3 μου (literally: take my 3) The 3 is implied for balls, and they're 3 instead of 2 because it's more manly I guess lmao
• Κλάσε μου τα 3 (literally: fart my 3) A combination of the previous two
• Αρχίδι (literally: testicle) You can actually call someone a testicle in Greek

In the dialect of the Italian province I'm from, my favorite insult is "Perdabàll", which literally means "balls loser" as someone who's so stupid and useless that could even manage to lose his testicles

In French, "pisse-vinaigre" or vinegar pisser, for someone that complains about everything

Word: Muji

In Devnagari (Nepali): मुजी

Meaning: A woman's pubic hair

In sentence: तँ मुजीको गाला फुट्नेगरी पड्काउॅछु।

Translation: I'll slap the living crap out of you muji.

Very Belgian: He doesn't have all his fries in the same bag / Il n'a pas toutes ses frites dans le même sachet

Meaning that he's/she's dumb or confused :D

Not my native language but the German language has some pretty fantastic words/insults like "punchable face" (backpfeifengesicht) and "brain denier" (gehirnverweigerer).

Not really an insult but:

"Hänellä ei taida olla kaikki muumit laaksossa"
"They don't seem to have all moomin in the valley"

When someone is talking crazy, etc

"Enculeur de poules mortes" which basically means dead chicken fucker. It's translatable but sounds so much better in french.

When a man balds at a young age, we say 'they were still shaving his mom when he was born'

Pretty brutal, eh ?

I’m a native English speaker so I can’t really contribute much to this post, but I remember watching a hidden camera prank show in the 90s, and the victim of the prank started yelling at the guy who pranked him. Unfortunately, I don’t know what language the show was in.

The TV show translated the insults he used and put it in the subtitles… and one of the insults was “curse the pig who delivered you”.

It probably sounded fine in his language but I remember thinking how oddly specific and personal to insult the midwife who helped your mother give birth to you lol.

Maybe there’s someone here who can recognise what phrase and language was used here?

Argentinian here, I find very funny that a while ago somebody decided to express frustration saying la concha del pato or la concha del mono (lit. "vagina of the male duck" or "monkey"). Yes, the absurdity of a male animal with a female organ seems to reinforce the obscenity somehow.

Heard one: Your mother has a penis and your father is jealous of it.

Du hast doch nicht alle Tassen im Schrank - German, you don't have all your cups in the drawer.

Telling someone he is stupid via comparison to cups. Why? Who knows.

"Te falta una patata para el kilo" (in Spanish)

English: "You're missing one potato for the kilo."

When you want to call someone a fool or an idiot, you question if they're in their right mind, if they use their head before speaking or doing something.

"mange tes morts" in french, can be translated to "eat your deads" which is like go fuck yourself

German: "Du Lappen"

Translates to "You rag", pretty much calling someone a loser or idiot.

Pannekoek.

You figure it out.

"I piss in your mother's death"

Alternatively, "May Stalin fuck you"

And yes, I live in Eastern Europe.

Gea mor net af die Kondl. "Don't step on my milk jug". You're annoying me and you better shut up or go away.

Konnsch mor in Buggl oirutschn. "You can slide down my back". I don't give a fuck.

German dialect from Tyrol.

Probably "sluta vara en så lagom rolig person". It isn't directly an insult. However, it's not something you would love to hear. It translates to "stop being a person who has the just right amount of fun".

Another thing my friends say when they are med is: "Din jävla ångvält!" which translates to "You fucking steamroller!".
It just sounds much better in Swedish.

Oh, I've several. Irish people love a good curse.

Go mbrise an diabhal do dhá chois May the devil break your legs

Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire do chnámh do dhroma May the devil make a ladder out of your spine

Go n-imí an droch aimsir leat That the bad weather leaves with you

Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat May the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat

And my personal favourite: Lá breá ag do chairde, dod adhlacadh May your friends have a fine day, burying you

Calling a male a "nephew" in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.

Usually it doesn't mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.

This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain "He's my nephew"

契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as "nephew" but it means "adopted brother"

That's not exact:

• Me cago en tus muertos = I shit on your ancestors / I shit on your dead relatives.
• Me cago en todos tus muertos = I shit on all of your ancestors / I shit on all of your dead relatives.

And in the theme of insults from Spain, a loaded one is also: Me cago en tu puta madre = I shit on your fucking mother / I shit on your whore mother

See, the thing with "puta/puto" is that it literally means "whore", but it's used to empathize cursings just like "fucking" is used in english. We're even misusing it by putting it before verbs, imitating it's use in english.

If you want to say that you don't care about something (as in: "I don't give a fuck"), in Serbian you would say: "My dick hurts". And that's an expression you'll hear almost daily. A less used variant of that, but still legit is: "My balls are beeping".

While not insulting, I'll throw in our way to say: "I'm/You're fucked". It's: "Jebao sam/si ježa u leđa", which means: "I/You fucked a hedgehog in the back"

Altough it's more like a "gypsy curse", but there's one that translates to sth like "I wish you'll having ten rings but none fingers"

Not that it’s untranslatable, but I enjoy it quite a lot.

Поцілуй бузька в калатало - go kiss a stork on the knocker.

If you ever heard storks, you’ll recognize the dismissiveness of this statement.

"Ge zijt a foorwijf"

You are a fair bitch. People working the carnival / fair scene don't have the best of reputation. In Belgium we had a song about this phenomenon and the real fair people were all kinds of angry about the stereotype. The thing is about stereotypes: it really has a base in reality.

Brazilian portuguese tends to lack impactful phrases, but is full of single curse words. A big portion of them a clear example of how much negative bias there is culturally against certain groups (gay men, women in general, disabled), unfortunately :/

One that isn't often used, but that I almost always laugh loud whenever I hear, is "Enfia uma dentadura no cu e sorria pro caralho", which roughly translates into "Stick a denture up your asshole and smile at the dick". For when simply saying "go fuck yourself" isn't enough.

French Canadian here

All of our swear words are Catholic church vocabulary words. As a never Catholic I always find them hilarious when I say them. They can basically be used as stand-ins for words in the same way as we use “fuck” in English or strung together.

“Saint Ciboire” was my grandmother’s favorite when I would fuck something up.

baptême [ba.tae̯m]: "baptism"
câlice [kɑːlɪs] (calice): "chalice"
ciboire [si.bwɑːʁ]: "ciborium" or "pyx", receptacles in which the host is stored
criss [kʁɪs] (Christ): "Christ", or crisser, a more emphatic version of sacrer, both verbs meaning "to curse"
esti [əs.t͡si], [ɛs.t͡si] or ostie [ɔs.t͡si] (hostie): "host [cookie]"
maudit [moːd͡zi] (m) or maudite [moːd͡zit] (f): "damned" (or "damn")
sacrament [sa.kʁa.mã] (sacrement): "Sacrament"
saint [sẽ]: "Saint", added before others (ex. saint-simonaque, saint-sacrament, etc.)
simonaque [si.mɔ.nak] (simoniaque): from the sin of simony
tabarnak [ta.baʁ.nak] (tabernacle): "tabernacle"; typically considered the most profane of the sacres
viarge [vjaʁʒ] (vierge): "the Virgin Mary"
Moïse: Moses

Greetings from Poland.

"bambaryła" - someone who is very silly. Also: someone who is very fat. A little old-fashioned.

I recently learned "Arschgeige" in German, which according to the reactions of people I asked, is a pretty mean thing to say. I can't get over the fact it literally means butt violin though.

I like the variant: "Me cago en tus muertos pisoteaos". I'll shit all over your treaded-on dead relatives.

Møgsvin (filth-pig), used as an insult similar to "asshole" or for someone who is literally filthy or messy.

Ikke den hurtigste knallert på havnen (not the fastest moped on the docks), used to describe someone who is stupid.

Pis mig i øret (piss in my ear), similar meaning as "fuck off".

Svagpisser (weak-pisser), for someone who is squeamish.

Pikhud på fingrene (cock-skin on your fingers), for someone who is squeamish about manual labour or about touching hot objects.

Skidespræller (shitkicker), someone who is annoying and unserious.

Bonderøv (peasant-ass), someone who comes off as rural or in a more broader sense someone who is uncool or uncultured.

Klaphat (clap hat), synonyms with idiot. Refers to a type of hat worn by football fans in the 1980's featuring a pair of stuffed hands that will clap together when the weather pulls a string.

Tölpel - a clumsy person

Hohle Fritte - hollow french fry/chip

Well, in french we have the simple yet effective "Enculé de ta race" and I just can’t translate it. If someone’s brave enough to do it, many thanks in advance.

There's "Nga Loe Ma Thar" in Burmese - Son of a woman I f-ed

We have curse stacking so it forms one big word. Godverdommemiljaardenondju. It's an ugly mix of dialect, French and Dutch, meaning something like "curse you a billion times in the name of God". And if it's only a mild inconvenience we only use a small part, like "dju" or "miljaar."

Well my native language is English and my favorite insult is “I hope you fall face first into a pile of shit with your mouth open”

I like the French 'Balance ton porc'.

'Balance your (inner) pig' of 'Keep your inner pig' in check'

On social networks, beyond the feminist spheres, a call around the keywords #balancetonporc and #metoo broke the omerta and reports testimony ranging from daily sexism and street harassment to sexual assaults.

In Swedish I would maybe say

Kioskmongo - kiosk mongoloid - someone of very low intellect that knows the difference of right and wrong and still chooses wrong

Chipsmongo - chip/crisp mongoloid - someone of low intellect that would rather just eat chips, preferably in a sandbox with the whole bag emptied into the sand.

I really like "paspalho" (pt-br) it's a light insult you can use with friends without hurting them when they do something stupid in a funny way

"Fåntratt", litterally translated as "idiot funnel". Something you might call a silly person

Let's throw some west-southern german things in here!

Seggl: Just a general insult to someone but not too bad. On the level of 'idiot'

Schafseggl: Just seggl with the prefix sheep. Slightly more derogatory

Grasdaggel: grass-dachshund, same level as Schafseggl

Dich haben sie bei der Geburt drei Mal hochgeworfen und zwei Mal aufgefangen.

When you were born, they threw you three times and only caught you twice.

Well, not really my native tongue but close enough. "Baap maral anhariya mai, beta ke naam powerhouse" literally means "The father died in darkness and the son's name is powerhouse." Used for overly ambitious people/ lying about achievements.

In Argentina, "Boludo" or "Pelotudo". It's very common to hear both, but the first one is like a little bit friendly, you can use it with friends and they'll accept it, but in the other face, "Pelotudo" isn't that friendly and it is regularly used to just insult, haven't found anyone that used that ironically.

In Italian when you can’t swear with a “vaffanculo” (f you) you can say “vai a quel paese” that’s “go to that country” And specifically in Milanese dialect you can also say “va a ciapà i rat” “go catching rats”

Argentina here:

"La recalcada concha de tu madre." The closest translation would be "your mother's pussy" but with added emphasis by the word "recalcada" which would be something like... uhm... super-copied? Yeah, don't ask.

You fight like a dairy farmer!

Pok guy - Cantonese phrase meaning falling on the street (literal translation) or hope you die on the street/suddenly (as an insult)

"Chuj Ci w dupe" is very popular in Polish. Literally "(put) a dick in you ass". But it's not " fuck you" or "fuck yourself". That would be " pierdol się".

Once i heard someone curse someone else out with "May cancer feast on the bloody spunk in your lungs."

Wurschtbesen. Somewhere between a Gfrast and an Oaschwarzn. But on the nicer end of both.

It's archaic but I love "raclure de bidet". Comparing someone to the stuff you would scrape off of a bidet where all sorts of people have washed their taint. Short and loaded with contempt.

"Gibier de potence" is great too. Means "game for the gallow", with the term "game" using in the hunting sense. Basically someone you think should be executed.

Also "chien sale", dirty/unclean dog, which for a reason is a stand-in for "asshole".

In Dutch: 'graftak' is a beautiful way to indicate an annoying/terrible person. Literally: 'grave-branch', which sounds nowhere near as satisfying.

C'est pas le pogo le plus dégelé de la boite.

It kind of translate to: He/she is not the most unfrozen pogo in the box.

It implies that someone is not the smartest person around, actually the opposite.

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Me cago en la leche de tu puta madre

That's one I picked up in Málaga. Fun place haha

"No me friegues, cara de tostada" don't fuck with me, tostada face. Much worse if the target is a spanish speaker.

It's not an insult but a way to show frustration without hurling insults.
So here in Russian like
ЁКЛМНЭ
ЁПРСТ
Ёшкин кот
Блин (pancake) to not use Блядь (whore)
Мать твою за ногу
Пиздец
Ппц
hmm that's all that comes to mind unless going into really insulting words.
In romanian I know only "Du-te in pula" "Du-te in pula mea" which is Get Fucked, fuck off.

Australia:

"Fuck off ya fuckin gronk!"

Or Ya fuckin mutt cunt!!"

Swedish Skitstövel - shit boot, basically means asshole

Despite being half Cypriot, I don't speak much Greek. Apologies to actual Greeks who realize how badly I'm butchering my transliterations here; my ancestors would be ashamed. (Most of them would probably just laugh at me though.)

That said, one of the funnier ones that used to go around in my family works like this: You yell for me from across the house. I respond "Di?" ("What?") And you yell again, usually meaning I should come over to wherever you are. Again, I say, "Di?" ("What?") And in exasperation, you respond, "Si kephali su tribidi!" (Your head is full of holes!) with emphasis on the last, matching, syllable as if to say "that's what!"

"live fast and get fucked or whatever"

Not really an insult but it kinda sounds like one.

Hebrew has a non-insult that sounds like an insult - "In your mother". It's not a polite phrase, mind you, but it's not usually used directly as an insult. It has many varied uses. it can be a shorthand for "Swear on your mother's life", mainly to express doubt (ex. "Dude, I won first prize in the lottery!" "really? In you mother!?") or a plea ("I really need a ride right now. In you mother, could you come pick me up?"). It can also be a modifier to "leave me alone", where "leave me in your mother" has about the same meaning as "leave me the fuck alone"/"fuck off".

Not in my language but it my local dialect "va' in mona" or "va' in figa" both translate to "go to (fuck a) p***y" and are short forms of

Va' in figa to' mare

which suggests the listener should go fuck his own mother's p***y. Very common insult in north-eastern Italy with no equivalent even in standard Italian.

Li mortacci tua!

"Me cago en tu puta madre" I'll shit all over your bitch of a mother. Spanish people like shitting on people's relatives too much

In Spanish would use "toca narices" o "toca pelotas" (nose toucher and bollock toucher) when some don't stop being a nuisance

Coc oen.

Literally translates as "lamb's penis", roughly equivalent to calling someone a dickhead but with an emphasis on belittling them.

Twmffat twp.

"Idiot spout", someone who doesn't think things through before speaking.

On the political side "Dic Siôn Dafydd" is how you refer to a Welsh person who's aligned themselves on England's side in an issue between England and Wales.

I don't like swear words

From what country is that phrase? Dominican?

What English speakers think is "Fuckin' A!" is actually "Fuckin', eh?". The word "eh" has no direct translation.