foutu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu.ty/

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Participle

foutu (feminine foutue, masculine plural foutus, feminine plural foutues)

1. past participle of foutre

Adjective

foutu (feminine foutue, masculine plural foutus, feminine plural foutues)

1. (colloquial) done for, screwed, fucked, doomed

   T’es foutu ! ― You’re fucked!

2. (colloquial) broken beyond repair, destroyed

   Mon ordi est foutu, je dois en acheter un nouveau mais je n’ai plus un rond.

   My computer's fucked or knackered (UK); I need to buy a new one but I'm broke.

3. (slang, derogatory, always before the noun) fucking (as an intensifier), pesky, damned, bloody

   Synonyms: satané, maudit, putain de, à la con

   Enlève cette foutue voiture du chemin ! ― Get this fucking car out of the way!

4. (slang, derogatory, followed by de + infinitive) liable to, capable of

   Il est foutu de tout casser. ― He might break everything.

   Ils n’ont même pas été foutus de ranger la cuisine. ― They didn't even bother to clean the kitchen.

5. (slang, of a thing) (poorly/badly) made, built, executed, devised

   Ce truc est trop mal foutu, ya rien qui fonctionne.

   This thing's so badly made; nothing works.

6. (slang, of a person) (well) built

   Synonyms: roulé, gaulé

   Elle est bien foutue. ― She has a nice figure/body.

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

1. (transitive, of rice) to harvest

Conjugation

Conjugation of foutu (action verb)
		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