Swedish swear words and Swedish insults (fula ord!) 

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"I'm a really big... FAN"

I love the train station guy, we Swedes might swear a lot but we rarely make a scene like he did.

Using sjutton instead of skit reminds me of the words my parents used when I was little... my dad would say, "Oh, Fffff fiddlesticks!!" And sometimes, "Oh shhhh shaving cream!" Haha!

I didn’t expected such a topic ;) Still great fun to watch. Så jäkla bra! Tack!

Den här lektionen är så jävla bra! Tack!

Best Swedish lesson ever!

Det här var hysteriskt roligt 🤣 vi är rätt klena på att svära när man tänker efter 😅

Jävla, vad bra video!

Järnspikar is an important softer swear word that means iron nails like the ones they used to put into the railroad!

Thank you for your video! They help us a lot!^^ You have such beautiful hair and the way you are! Thank you for sharing your positive and cool mood together with the knowledge!^^

Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the reason why I wanna learn Swedish

The most cursed Swedish word I have come across is "olla". I was like "Why do you have a specific word for that?!" And now I use it to pester a Swedish friend, asking if he's done it lately. Lol.

OXD.... It was an amazing video😁....As someone said: "Bad things are easy to learn😅".. XD.... Waiting for part 2😎😎

Changing "skit" to "sjutton" is just like changing "shit" to "sugar" in English. We do this in scotland I'm not sure about anyone else lol

You missed "satan i gatan" which means devil in the street/ground. It is a bit of a reaction more than curse.

2:39 In the Mount Everest Scenario, I'd say it would be more fitting to say "vad fan" in stead of just "fy fan", or you would add something like "vad korkat av mig" (how stupid of me) so that it becomes "fy fan, vad korkat av mig". You mostly say just _"fy fan"_ in reaction to something really disgusting, when you accidentally hurt yourself, or when you see someone else get hurt. For example; _"Fy fan, vad äckligt det luktar/Damn, that smells disgusting"_ _"Fy fan, vad det gjorde ont/Damn, that really hurt"_ Or just a short and simple _"Fy fan!"_ We also use "fy fan" to emphasize emotions, for example; _"Fy fan, vad arg jag blir/Damn, that makes me angry"_ _"Fy fan, vad ledsen jag blir/Damn, that makes me sad"_ _"Fy fan, vad glad jag blir/Damn, that makes me happy"_ Or, when we're told about something that invokes an intense emotion; _"Fy fan, vad sorgligt/Damn, how sad"_ _"Fy fan, vad roligt/Damn, how fun"_ _"Fy fan, vad frustrerande/Damn, how frustrating"_ _"Fy fan, vad underbart/Damn, how wonderful"_ *"Vad fan"* however, is more commonly used when We're disappointed; _Either just "vad fan",_ or _"Vad fan, jag glömde ta med mig flaggan/Damn it, I forgot to bring the flag with me"_ When were surprised; _"Vad fan!"_ or _"Vad fan?"_ Or, we use it in connection to a question; _"Vad fan gör du?/What the hell are you doing?"_ _"Vad fan är det där?/What the hell is that?"_ I hope this isn't too confusing! I tried to be as clear as possible, though I'm not too sure it turned out that way. 😅

Question: Is the word "helvete" at all related to Helvetia (the Swiss word for Switzerland)? It seems too coincidental to believe the two are entirely independent. Tack så mycket.

In Middle east, ppl focus more on mother and sister. Sometimes the word "infidel" is used but it is kinda outdated now.

Me: *inhales*

fy means gross or disgusting like in ”Grönsaker! Fy!”

I'm almost 46 and I know those words. Lol My first time in Sweden was in 1997.

Oh my god!

Can you explain swedish sås

Jäklar or jälar are like Jävlar bit more not on the swearing ive heard it much in 1an och 2an

The title has a typo 😉

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My dad being 49 and I hear him say f*tta, hahahh det är inte ofta alls

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Satan is not a bad word AT home

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Jävla skit video.

Not my business, sorry! First time i clicked the other botten...

Quando a pessoa gosta da comida chama de boa merda, kkkkkk rindo até altas horas, kkkkk

It was time... How can you (properly) function in a society if you do not know bad words?!

Love these videos... I have a Swedish mother, but wasn't raised to speak it, so I'm trying to learn as an adult. However, she was like a surrogate mom to Swedish au pairs in the area, so they'd hang at the house, and of course they love to teach the bad words to kids... one day, my mom got home. "What does 'knulla' mean?" "I'm not going to tell you." "Fine, I'll call mormor and ask her." "DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT TO YOUR MORMOR!!"

I lost it at the poop sausage 🤣🤣🤣

In my Zoom Swedish class, I can sometimes use words I learn while watching Wallander. One day I let "fan" slip out and my somewhat "senior" instructor said "ooooh." Clearly not used in her age group. I'm lucky I didn't use a worse one!

You Swedes are so kind people, I love it. Not many ''bad'' words and the worst ones you have are used by children in Greece! 😂 I can write a book of Greek swearing words and reeeally bad ones, even with bad gestures! 😂😂

I am still waiting for you to make a video talking English with a very strong Swedish accent. That would pretty cool!

Laughing sooo much at this video and i love it. You are too adorable. Thabks for laughs and information

Great and fun video. My favourite idiot type insult I heard in Sweden was "IQ-befriad" ( ? IQ removed)

"Fy" also exists in old English, and you might see it in old books/plays, "fie"

The "slüt" at "the end" was cute 😂

Idiot with a Swedish accent? That's exactly how we pronounce it in Dutch, lol. But aside from that, great video! :)

Wow, that's really awesome, professional and has lots of fun! I am a new subscriber and I am happy. Thank you!

While this may or may not be a swear word(s) can you clear up what 'boniga puckon' is as in the song sung in Herr Talman? I cannot find this anywhere, even in the svensk ordbok I have.

det var skit bra! 😂👍

I only know one Swedish bad word which is kärring it means bit**

This was a pretty sfw video about cursewords. It might be good to explain that like in most languages there is a tier of extra offensive words one should stay away from completely that was not mentioned here. Kid friendly-tier => Numbers and "cute" words for poop or bodyparts (sjutton, bajs, rumpa) sfw-tier => normal words for poop or older religious curses (skit, jävlar, fan, helvete) nsfw-tier => ugly words for things related to sex (kuk, fitta, knulla, hora) "Your friends will leave you"-tier => Rasist words or degrading terms for developmentaly disbled people (N-word, B-word, M-word)

And don't mistake jävla with Gävle, just like myself did ahaha

Svordom is an interesting word, meaning swear-curse I believe!? Or is -dom from some other origin here?

My grandma would say "forbasket"???? Some thing like that, is that swear word?

40 years ago, I learned the following from Swedish friends in Göteborg: _kuken och fittan spelar boll,_ _kuken vann det tio-noll_ 😄 I still don’t really know what this is about.

Just about every single swedish swear word can be used to put emphasis on things, the worse the word the stronger the emphasis.

Kanske inte särskriva ord som skitbra, skitdålig? 😉

But they swear on TV and radio at all times of the day, and even kids swear and no one seems to care that much, lol! It's a lot different to other countries where they bleep out the swearwords on TV shows (even in the evening)

Heh, I'm now wondering about the origin of religious "curse" words. At first I was wondering if it was a Nordic thing, because Finns use 'perkele' (\saatana) a lot, but then I also remembered about hearing a 'fun fact' from a fellow French university student that told me about French-Canadians that also use 'religious curse words' such as 'tabarnak'. Now I'm guessing whether people used to be more religious (way) back then, and it was carried along This was very interesting!

This is great! There are of course also sexual words used as curse words. Kuk (cock) or Kuk-huvud (cock-head) are common ones. Fitta (cunt) or fitt-nylle (cunt-face) are pretty standard too among young swedes. The use of these words is considered more vulgar and harsh than the english counterparts though in my experience. The use of them is seen as very immature. Coincidentally, "fitta" is more commonly used by girls and "kuk" more commonly by boys. At least of what i've heard.

En words....Ett words.....now there are F words. This is so confusing.

Tack så mycket för videon! Grazie tante per il video :)

The English equivalent of sjutton would be 'sugar' instead of the English scatological word.

"Sjutton också", "hundan", "tusan" - these 'soft' swear words are originally also about devils. They are the amount of devils that are expected to take a scene since things gone wrong. But these words are also a way to go around the meanest words - to mention the d¤~■%l himself, that the ancestors thought would show up if you spoke their names out loud.

17? Your bad words are quite cute. Greetings from Germany.

Helvete is one of the curse words that's universal in all skandinavia. I heard it it Sweden as well as in Denmark and in Norway. Same thing with fan. The Norwegians write it "faen" but its basically the same word.

"Skit____" is a supposed to be a compound word I think?

I typed it wrongly into Google Translate as bajskorb - which it says means “poop basket”. I like that almost as much as the poop sausage. Fan! Jag är så jävlar dålig på Svenska!

There are people that have written doctorates about swearing,coursing and insulting. Most of them relates to religious matters but they often relate to male or female anatomy. Further south it is very popular to comment the moral of someone’s relatives, specially mothers or sisters. I assume that in Sweden you have regional differences. In Norway the language gets more colorful the further north you get. Some people have made swearing to almost an art form. I assume the language in the Kallix region is much more colorful than the words they normally use in Stockholm. In northern Norway things can be expressed in such a way that you may think it is an insult but the meaning is the opposite. In Oslo one man got a penalty for calling a policeman a jerk while a man in northern Norway got away from calling a policeman a horse dick.

I know a few Russian swears but I don’t want RU-vid getting mad at me!

Sjutton comes from a curse that said Sjutton djävlar ( Seventeen devils).... So it used to be worse then now.

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You did in my opinion the translations too mild. I personaly would have said "Fan också!" is equal the english "FUCK!" and "Fan ta dig!" = "Fuck You!" because it's directed at someone/something also because I personally have never heard anyone use "Djävlar ta dig!" or "Satan ta dig!" as a cuss without more context added to them and saying them alone like that doesn't roll off the tongue as smoothly as "Fan ta dig!".

I just skimmed through the video, so I can't say if this was brought up somewhere or not, but these words are really tame nowadays and few people would even bat en eyelid if you use them. I think since most people aren't religious at all in Sweden anymore, cursewords involving the devil and such has lost all shock value for us. I don't thin there are any particular words that are taboo for us anymore. It's more about intent. Like the more traditionally "vulgar" words for male and female genitals, for example. There is nothing wrong with the words themselves, but it's not okay to use them against someone in a derogatory way.

Today we have "*Knolla", that are used by afrikan/arabick "swedes" today. ' knolla

It's good to know these in case someone uses it on you.

Haha tack för den roliga lektionen! :)

My husband is from Sweden. His English is amazing! When somebody cuts ahead of him in traffic, he leans out thr window and yells 'What da hell are you doing?::"You can go !##$#$ yourself"! He is really funny when he gets upset "I want to get to get to my job" comes I yust vanna get to my yob!

I still say we should have “Easy Languages” revive “Easy Swedish.” I asked actually over a month ago but I have seen no new videos yet.

I think the guy just told you to ask someone if they want to make out. I hope you know them very well. 😁😁

Jävlar, you're a fine ginger and teacher!!

I have been thinking if the curse word “sjutton” actually comes from “satan”..? That it kind of sounds a bit the same, but still not. And is just a random number instead of the devil … Kind of like as a cover up.

I'm in california, so I use svenska swear words while working so's not to offend anyone nearby. I just hope no Scandinavians ever walk past while I'm on a rant, or else I'm getting fired

Here in Finland in finlandsvenska (finnishswedish language), actually main meaning of word fan is same as english word fuck. But its true that its most commonly used swearword also in here.

Arton (attan), the number of Odin.

Finally I know how fy fan is written! I heard that frequently in Swedish movies when they find a dead body or something goes wrong.

I remember when I was in school 6th grade. The teacher gave us the mission to think what curse words there are in Sweden. We would also explain our own theories what we think have been used before and vs in modern days. And I tell you not alot had the balls to say those words which is totally fine. But I on the other hand had no problem 😂😅

ironic that all of Sweden's curse words relate to religion when practically everyone there is an atheist. edit: it would quite the sight if an elderly woman in Orebro missed the bus and yelled "fitta kuk knulla!"

Asså det finns inte så mycket svärord i svenska språket. Det därför finns slang ord som kom från övriga språk

But 17 and 1000 are also devilish words and means 17 or 1000 devils.

The older generation... People over 40... Fan, fetch me my walker

I once heard something like (sorry I don't remember exactly and don't know how to write it either) "nala balaba"? could this mean something? What would it be correctly and what does it mean? Thank you.

Skit's mind is creating the entire fucking universe and you discover that that's you who's been doing it the whole time. It's utterly shocking and astounding. It's so astounding that you won't want to believe it because people have told you all it's egotistical to say that you're skit. Only a narcissist would claim that he's skit. You're imagining the entire fucking universe. What does that make you? That makes you skit bra. Reality is pure imagination. Tada.

Very very common is that swedes use the word skit (shit)all the time everywehre : skit bra , skit gott ,maten är skit god " chiit braa , chiit gått ,maaten äär schiit good "... translated to english : shit good , the food is shit good....skit ( poop/shit )is most used swedish word , shit/poop is used in almost every sentence.... in no other countrys television people swear and say shit and poop as much as in sweden...it's totally barbarian...LOL

fan -nej så säger man inte börjar måla fan på väggen istället

I'm cursing all the time....fan! and satan! is the most common. Maybe i'm wrong but no one seems to care any more....but as i said....maybe i'm wrong. And 'turd' is also a good translation for 'bajskorv' but i like 'poop sausage' ;-). I'm 59 now and i also use a very very uncommon curse word....'kuken' in a loud voice. Translated....like.....'the dick''. You use when everything goes wrong. Just saying. ;-) I'm Swedish by the way.

”is ”jäklar” a softcurse word? Kinda have similarities with j*vlar. I always heard it on one of my classmates. Correct me if i’m wrong

I'm looking forward to practicing these at work this week 😈

Thank you! Tack! Gracias!

To all) So be nice to all in sweden if not they can be angry and some pepole is rude to new pepole in the country so try to be nice and help pepole so they feel that you really are nice.