{"id":2063,"date":"2012-05-30T21:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2012-06-04T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T13:02:31","slug":"dutch-swear-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dutch-swear-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Swear Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is one of the things many people learn first when they learn a new language? Go on, you can say it \u2013 we won\u2019t blush. As much as language programs seem to always start with numbers, greetings or even colours, for many people the first word is a swear word.<\/p>\n<p>You might have noticed that some of the other Transparent Language blogs have started to cover swear words and now we\u2019ll go ahead and learn how to swear in Dutch. This is of course by no means an exhaustive list but it should give you a better understanding about swearing in Dutch.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If this isn\u2019t your type of thing, you may wish to stop reading now.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Let\u2019s start at the beginning:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>swear words = scheldwoorden<\/li>\n<li>swearing = schelden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Swearing in Dutch isn\u2019t pretty. Although to be fair, in what language is it nice? In Dutch, swear words often fall into categories, however, it is very common to combine one or more of the categories to come up with an extra strong swear word. Here are some examples of both singular and combined swear words with their rough translations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diseases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether you shout the disease when you stub your toe or suggest that someone has the disease, disease related swear words used to be very popular but have started to go a bit out of fashion, especially kanker (cancer).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>kanker\/kankerlijer (cancer\/lijer means someone that has, so kankerlijer is someone that has cancer)<\/li>\n<li>tyfuslijer (someone that has typhoid)<\/li>\n<li>tering (tuberculosis) &#8211;&gt; e.g. if your foot gets stuck under the rug as you pass and you almost fall, you might shout out &#8220;tering, kutkleed!&#8221; &#8211;&gt; &#8220;tuberculosis, c*nt rug!&#8221; (doesn&#8217;t really have the same ring to it in English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Occupations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hoer (wh*re)<\/li>\n<li>kuthoer (c*nt wh*re)<\/li>\n<li>tyfushoer (typhus wh*re)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Genitalia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>kut (c*nt)<\/li>\n<li>lul (penis)<\/li>\n<li>klote (scrotum)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Animal Species<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>vuilehond (dirty dog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Appearances<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>dikke (fat)<\/li>\n<li>schele (cross eyed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last but not least, we come to a very popular, if not slightly odd, Dutch swear word. This swear word is often used when something is not going right, similar to how in English we might say f**k .<\/p>\n<p>In Dutch the word is <em>verdomme<\/em> or <em>godverdomme<\/em>. If you break it down <em>god<\/em> = god, <em>verdom<\/em> = damn and <em>me<\/em> = me.<\/p>\n<p>This was in fact the first swear word I learned when arriving in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is one of the things many people learn first when they learn a new language? Go on, you can say it \u2013 we won\u2019t blush. As much as language programs seem to always start with numbers, greetings or even colours, for many people the first word is a swear word. 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