FRENCH: "Foutent" = "****ing" ?

No, it's not "foutent"! It's "fouettent", from the infinitive "fouetter", meaning "to whip". Presumably all the ingredients are going to be whipped together?

@Josb What's the f word in French?

There is no generic word. ****ing means so many things in English.

I f***ed him. = Je l'ai baisé.
F***! = Putain!
F*** you! = Je t'emmerde!
It's a f***ing mess! = C'est un putain de bordel!
We're f***ed! = On est dans la merde!
The oven is f***ed. = Le four est foutu.
Etc.

I'm very very confused.

I listened to Veruca Salt's song, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and one line of the lyrics sounds like:

"Qui prennent les narines et qui foutent !
Et qui foutent"

When I Google Translated (yes, I know I shouldn't use this) the lyrics, it said that "Foutent" means f***ing.

Proof:



Here if anyone wants to listen:

[video="youtube;VdB3UI5eEk4"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdB3UI5eEk4[/video]

i thought baise was french for the f word (weird fact, it can also mean sit or good in sanskrit derived languages)

@CheeseIsVeg Do you know anything about this? I know that you really like French

I think I've been beaten to it, was unavailable, sorry

Yeah I've learnt my lesson of being trolled by a French forum

My French teacher at GCSE said that there were a lot of ways of saying it depending on if it was a noun/verb.

Yeah that's what I found when I tried to dig up french swears during my AS levels (didn't actually care what the AS level course wanted me to learn, I wanted the actually useful stuff) . I like niquer the best (to f*ck)

Hahahhahaha oh my, I remember looking through the dictionary for those words too

I just used google, it was much quicker.

Ended up starting a lot of essays in year 12 with some point about the general population followed by "mais je prefererais niquer un vache" and then never finished it.

Oh dear hahahaha, I miss the days of French GCSE I never did AS because the only people that picked French at my school at A Level were native French speakers and that drives the grade boundaries through the roof

Doing french AS is a terrible idea, the way they teach foreign languages in this country is absolutely useless. I'd really struggle to even order a pizza in france but if you want I could probably give you some random alleged positives and negatives of advertising that I don't really believe much myself. The prioritisation of absolute rubbish you'll never use over stuff you might actually need is insane.

Doing french AS is a terrible idea, the way they teach foreign languages in this country is absolutely useless. I'd really struggle to even order a pizza in france but if you want I could probably give you some random alleged positives and negatives of advertising that I don't really believe much myself. The prioritisation of absolute rubbish you'll never use over stuff you might actually need is insane.

Oh yes I've heard a lot about how instead of learning actual useful French, it's essentially debating strange things like Nuclear Power, etc.