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Swear words in German

What does a German say when he's just angry and when he's really, really angry? In German, obscene vocabulary has a certain structure, which we're going to look at now:

Fluchwörter

Crude expressions by which the speaker expresses a vivid emotion, such as anger, frustration or wishing something bad.

Schimpfwörter.

They are used to give a negative characteristic to an object (a person or an object) to offend or humiliate it. They are often formed from words like "shit" (and everything related to it) and all sorts of names of body parts as well as animals.

Vulgarismen (vulgarisms).

Basically, this group of owls includes words from the previous two categories in everyday speech, not necessarily to offend anyone, but often just to fill a pause.

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