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3 examples of swearing in Québécois French taken from Facebook comments (#1001)

14 August 2015 by OffQc

Montréal

Here are 3 examples of French using swear words heard in Québec. They’re taken from Facebook comments.

Maudit que t’es beau!
Damn you’re good-looking!
Damn you look good!

C’est pas d’sa faute si c’est un esti d’cave.
It’s not his fault if he’s a fucking idiot.

Maudite marde.
Holy shit. Damn it.

Do you remember how to pronounce maudit like the Québécois? The letter d sounds like dz when it’s followed by the French i sound. (It’s like the dz sound in the English word lads.) So maudit sounds like [modzi], and maudite sounds like [modzit].

In English, you say a fucking idiot, but in French it’s un esti de cave, with de placed between esti (fucking) and cave (idiot). You can’t say un esti cave. In our example above, the de is contracted informally to d’.

C’est un esti d’cave from the example can contract even further: c’t’un esti d’cave, where c’est is reduced to just a st sound before un.

C’est pas d’ma faute means it’s not my fault.

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Posted in Entries #1001-1050 | Tagged cave, dzidzu, esti, esti de cave, français québécois, marde, maudit, Québécois French, t'es | 3 Comments

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  1. on 18 October 2015 at 18:07 Neil

    You were talking about “c’t’un esti d’cave, where c’est un is reduced to just a st sound.” Are you actually saying that “c’est un” is reduced to just an “st” sound (which would give “st’esti d’cave”) or that “c’est” is reduced to an “st” sound?


    • on 18 October 2015 at 18:28 OffQc

      Sorry, it was worded wrong. I’ve fixed it.


      • on 1 December 2015 at 22:25 Neil

        Thanks for the clarification.



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