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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 un is reduced to just a st sound.
C’est pas d’ma faute means it’s not my fault.
