We also have "it goes past my ass" in German
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Number 4 should be: It can rust my ass.
If i ever use it that's what i'd say, but i think the original is 'het kan me aan m'n reet roesten' (it can rust on my ass). But i agree ass is a better translation than anus.
Beside this one, Dutch also has an infinite variations of 'i don't give a damn/a fuck' (het kan me geen moer/bout/biet/donder/bal/… schelen) and also we have variations on something similar to the German one (het zal mij een worst wezen) though i'm not sure how to give an accurate translation, something in the along the lines of 'i wouldn't care even if it was a sausage' or more literally 'it could be a sausage to me'
Clearly i care to much to keep my mouth shut lol
The "it can oxidize on my anus" translation would be like saying "Naught fornications bequethed" instead of "Zero fucks given"
Nah the streetchique version is ‘het zal me aan mijn anus oxideren’. So pretty accurate
I shit on it with a high-arcing trajectory. Hungarian (nagy ívben szarok rá)
Danish: it concerns me [to the extent of(?)] a cardboard-duck / harvest-flower
(Det rager mig en papand / høstblomst)
"My dick hurts" (Croatian)
"I shat" - Brazilian Portuguese
Well... Hmm... The Dutch one would be better translated to:
"It can rust to my ass!"
Must be Netherlands dutch, because I can't make anything from this?
We say "kan me geen reet schelen" or " 't zal me worst wezen", apparently like the Germans 😄
Bonus: "interesseert me geen fluit"
Well, yeah. Netherlands Dutch.
"Het kan me aan m'n reet roesten!"
Not really. Greek and various translations across the region: "I write it on my balls."
Edit: "To my balls" also works.
"Στην πουτσα μας" is a variation of "στ'αρχιδια μας" and the bee variation is a further evolution of the former
We also have an actual german word for that, in addition to the phrases conveying similar meanings:
Egal.
Meaning something is irrelevant, does not matter, can be disregarded. So, something i give zero fucks about would be something that ist mir (scheiß)egal. Add swear words to your liking for emphasis.
I wonder if that's from/related to the French "égal," meaning "equal," thus "it's all the same to me." I see German has its own unrelated word for "equal," but borrowing another language for cursing purposes is as common as merde, pardon my French.
Very possible, we have an older way of saying "ist mir egal" that is "ist mir gleich", which means equal. So, something is equal to me, i dont care either way, neither option matters.
According to Wiktionary, it is indeed a 17th century borrowing from French égal
In Italian "Chi se ne frega?" meaning "Who jerks off on it?". "Me ne frego" ("I jerk off on it") was something Mussolini used to say.
Italian has a few that might be hard to translate:
Fottesega: "fucks a handjob/saw"? This one I reckon might be really difficult to translate but "fotte" means "fucks" (the verb, not the noun), and "sega" is both a saw and a handjob so it's anyone's guess how to translate it.
We also have "m'importa 'na sega" or "I care a handjob/saw". This is easier to translate, and I love hearing it in Tuscany accent, top notch.
Also, Spanish has some other: You can change the cucumber with a pepper bell (pimiento) and works the same.
There's also "Me importa tres cojones" or "I care three balls". It's specifically three, because, you see? The word "cojones" is probably the one with most meanings in our language, it has to be three because it's the number for showing an extremely low value thing.
There's also a popular shorten version.
Je m'en bats les couilles becomes balec'
Yeah that's probably the best.
I particularly like "flowers on my dick and bees all around"... but I would care a great deal about that so it doesn't work very well.
Maybe it's like an "I could care less" thing.
Can someone tell me the french version of number 3?
The Spanish one is primarily from Spain. You hardly hear it used in latin America, but it is still well understood. How the venerable cucumber became synonymous with "worthless", I do not know.
My Spanish speaking friends and family use "...no me importa un carajo" which is close to "...do not care a fuck", which is the same vibe as "don't give a fuck". The word "carajo" is very flexible, like fuck, as is "cabrón" which technically means cuck but is often used in many ways both negative and positive, depending on context.
"zero fucks given" means "I don't care" but is a) profane and b) carries extra connotations. "das ist mir wurst" isn't crude in the same way at all, and I don't think it carries the same implication of keeping cool.
Translating idioms is hard and they rarely translate exactly, but especially if you pick an idiom which is already a niche way of saying something that there are more common ways to express.
Anyone who knows Japanese wanna weigh in?
I know maybe 3 dozen words in Japanese and the best I can do is "Nandemonaiya" which is something like "never mind" but could also maybe be used to say "forget about it". Japanese is a super polite language though, so "it doesn't matter" may be about as good as it gets? Also, Japanese tends to throw nouns out to mean a thing is like that noun, like you might call a homebody an "otaku" (house, as in they never leave it) (commonly used to refer to anime fans, as in they stay in all day watching anime) so maybe the word for "shit" or "garbage." Shit, as in just saying the curse (like "dammit") would be kuso (usually the vowels are silent, so it just sounds like "hiss" but with a K (but not "Kiss" if that makes any sense). But "kuso" is more like "dammit," like I said, I wouldn't use it to say I don't care, more that I'm annoyed and bothered.
知らない (shiranai) can be a pretty biting way to say you don't care about something/someone's situation, but it's not vulgar. しらねぇ (shiranee) would be a more vulgar way to say the same thing, that's probably closer. I don't know if there's a metaphorical idiomatic phrase like the other languages in the OP.
For vulgarity in Japanese in general, you should watch this: https://youtu.be/GcjbwkBQeO8?si=rwQWinL_TN-1Pzts
In Poland, in addition to various versions of 'I shit on it', we also have "koło chuja mi to lata", which roughly means "it flies around my dick". The translation doesn't give it justice, but I can't come up with anything better
We also have "I care shit about it", "I have it up my ass" and "It interests me as much as last year's snow".
Ya all forgot "Wyjebane" which is funny enough because it's literally opposite to "Zero fucks given" as it translates to "fucked" xD
"It touches one ball without moving the other" is a well-known remix to the french one :)
Other french favorites: "Je m'en tamponne le coquillard" --> I dab my anus with it "Je m'en badigeonne le nombril avec le pinceau de l'indifférence" --> I paint my navel with the brush of indifference about it
Question: For the ones involving dicks and balls, do women typically also use these phrases? Is it one of those things that has just become somehow less-gendered over time despite the content?
In France women can use it but it's quite rare, from my experience, to ear one actually use it.
Italian:
- I don't care a d*ck
- I don't care a dried fig
- I don't care a cabbage
I'm reminded of a line I heard somewhere with a French guy with an accent saying "I spit in your face."

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