foutu
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fu.ty/
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Participle
foutu (feminine foutue, masculine plural foutus, feminine plural foutues)
- past participle of foutre
Adjective
foutu (feminine foutue, masculine plural foutus, feminine plural foutues)
- (colloquial) done for, screwed, fucked, doomed
- T’es foutu, mec ! ― You’re fucked, man!
- (colloquial) broken beyond repair, destroyed
- Mon ordi est foutu, je dois en acheter un nouveau mais j'ai plus un rond.
- My computer's fucked or knackered (UK); I need to buy a new one but I'm broke.
- (slang, derogatory, always before the noun) fucking (as an intensifier), pesky, damned, bloody
- (slang, derogatory, followed by de + infinitive) liable to, capable of
- Il est foutu de tout casser, lui. ― He might break everything.
- Ils ont même pas été foutus de ranger la cuisine.
- They didn't even bother to clean the kitchen. / They couldn't even be arsed (UK) to clean the kitchen.
- (slang, of a thing) (poorly/badly) made, built, executed, devised
- Ce truc est trop mal foutu, y'a rien qui fonctionne.
- This thing's so badly made; nothing works.
- (slang, of a person) (well) built
Derived terms
- fichu (euphemism)
- foutu pour foutu
Further reading
- “foutu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɸo.ˈu.t̪u/
Verb
foutu
- (transitive, of rice) to harvest
Conjugation
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tofoutu | mofoutu | afoutu | |
2nd person | nofoutu | fofoutu | ||
3rd person | inanimate | ifoutu | dofoutu | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nofoutu, foutu | fofoutu, foutu |
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics