fotre
See also: fotré
Catalan
Alternative forms
- fúmer (euphemistic)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin futuere (compare Occitan fóter or fotre, Italian fottere French foutre, Spanish joder, Portuguese foder and Romanian fute).
Pronunciation
Verb
fotre (first-person singular present foto, first-person singular preterite fotí, past participle fotut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
- (vulgar) to fuck; to have sex.
- (vulgar) to become ruined, fucked (said of a person)
- Fote't! Tant de bo et fotis! ― Fuck you! I hope you get fucked!
- (vulgar) to put in a difficult situation, screw up, fuck up
- Synonyms: destrossar, rebentar, afectar
- El meu cotxe està fotut. La situació és ben fotuda. ― My car is screwed up. The situation is really fucked up.
- Estic fotut / M'he fotut. ― I'm screwed.
- (vulgar) to annoy, bug, bother
- Synonym: molestar
- No em fotis que estic de mala hòstia. ― Don't fuck with me, I'm in a bad mood.
- (vulgar) to do or not do something (often with emphasis) or to cause a strong impression or sensation (similar to fer)
- Synonym: fer
- Què cony fots? ― What the hell are you doing?
- En tot el dia no fot res. ― He does nothing all day long.
- Aquesta carretera fot fàstic i fot pena. ― This road is disgusting and pitiful.
- Fot anys que ho vaig comprar ― I bought it years ago.
- Fot calor! ― It is hot!
- Fot fred! ― It is cold!
- Fot vent! ― It is windy!
- Fot bon rotllo ― produces good vibes
- Fot mal rotllo ― produces bad feeling
- (vulgar) to start an action
- No et fotis a plorar, que no t’han fet res! ― Don't start crying, they haven't done anything to you!
- (vulgar) to put, to place something or someone in a location, also an impression or a sensation, to put in, to put on.
- Synonyms: posar, ficar, introduir
- He fotut la roba a l'armari. ― I've put the clothes in the closet.
- On s'ha fotut? ― Where has (s)he gone?
- El govern ens fot impostos. ― The government imposes taxes on us.
- Fot un altre canal de televisió, que aquest no m'agrada gens. ― Put on another TV channel, I don't like this one at all.
- Fote't la jaqueta. ― Put on your jacket.
- Quan li fots benzina al cotxe. ― When you fill up your car with petrol.
- Em fotré xampú als cabells. ― I'll put shampoo in my hair.
- Us fotrem una derrota. ― We'll give you a defeat.
- Us fotrem una pallissa! ― We'll beat you all up!
- (vulgar) to break
- (reflexive, colloquial) to hurt
- Synonym: fer mal
- S'ha fotut contra un arbre. ― He has hurt himself against a tree.
- No te la fotis! ― Don't hurt yourself!
- (vulgar) to give or receive a hit, to strike violently, not sexually
- (transitive, vulgar) to push, to shove, to throw
- (reflexive, vulgar) to mock
- Synonyms: mofar-se, fer conya, rifar-se
- te'n fots de mi? ― are you kidding me?
- (reflexive, vulgar) to be irrelevant
- se me'n fot ― I don't give a damn
- (colloquial) to steal
- (colloquial) to eat
Conjugation
Conjugation of fotre (second conjugation)
| infinitive | fotre | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | fotent | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | fotut | fotuda | |||||
| plural | fotuts | fotudes | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | foto | fots | fot | fotem | foteu | foten | |
| imperfect | fotia | foties | fotia | fotíem | fotíeu | fotien | |
| future | fotré | fotràs | fotrà | fotrem | fotreu | fotran | |
| preterite | fotí | foteres | foté | fotérem | fotéreu | foteren | |
| conditional | fotria | fotries | fotria | fotríem | fotríeu | fotrien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | foti | fotis | foti | fotem | foteu | fotin | |
| imperfect | fotés | fotessis | fotés | fotéssim | fotéssiu | fotessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | fot | foti | fotem | foteu | fotin | |
| negative (no) | — | no fotis | no foti | no fotem | no foteu | no fotin | |
Derived terms
Interjection
fotre
- (vulgar, colloquial) fuck
Further reading
- “fotre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “fotre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “fotre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fotre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.