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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
God + damn
Pronunciation
- (interjection) IPA(key): /ˌɡɒdˈdæm/
- (intensifier) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒd.dæm/
- (interjection) Rhymes: -æm
Interjection
goddamn
- (vulgar, colloquial) An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitement or frustration.
Synonyms
Translations
an expression of anger, surprise, or frustration
- Arabic: اللَعْنَة (al-laʕna)
- Bulgarian: проклятие! (bg) (prokljatie!)
- Catalan: me cago en Déu!, me cago en Déu, en la creu i en el fuster que la féu!
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 他媽的／他妈的 (zh) (tāmāde), 該死／该死 (zh) (gāisǐ), 糟糕 (zh) (zāogāo)
- Danish: for fanden, satans (da), for helvede, fuck (da)
- Dutch: verdomme! (nl), godverdomme! (nl)
- Estonian: kurat! (et), pärgel!
- Finnish: perkele! (fi), saatana! (fi), jumalauta! (fi)
- French: diable! (fr), merde! (fr), bon Dieu de merde!
- German: verdammt noch mal, gottverdammt (de)
- Hungarian: a francba, a fenébe (hu), a jó életbe, az istenit, a franc essen bele, a rohadt életbe, a szentségit
- Indonesian: sialan! (id), brengsek! (id), setan! (id), iblis! (id), jahanam! (id), keparat! (id), kurang ajar! (id)
- Italian: porco Dio!, porcodio! m, merda! (it), cazzo! (it), minchia! (it), dannazione! (it), maledetto! (it), diavolo! (it)
- Japanese: しまった (shimatta), 畜生 (ja) (ちくしょう, chikushō)
- Korean: 아뿔싸 (ko) (appulssa)
- Malay: tak guna! (ms)
- Northern Sami: beargalat!, sáhtán!
- Polish: cholera! (pl)
- Portuguese: caramba! (pt), droga! (pt)
- Romanian: dar-ar dracii!
- Russian: (lit. devil take (it)) чёрт возьми́! (čort vozʹmí!), чёрт побери́! (čort poberí!); прокля́тье! (ru) (prokljátʹje!), чёрт (ru) (čort), зара́за! (ru) (zaráza!), блядь (ru) (bljadʹ) (vulgar, more common)
- Spanish: ¡hostia! (es) f, ¡me cago en Dios! (es), ¡joder! (es), ¡su puta madre!, rediós (es)
- Swedish: djävlar! (sv), satan! (sv), fan! (sv)
- Turkish: kahretsin!, lanet olsun!
- Udmurt: шайтан! (šajtan!), албасты! (albasty!)
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Adjective
goddamn (not comparable)
- (derogatory) Damned by God.
- (vulgar, sometimes offensive) Used as an intensifier.
2019 July 26, Charles P. Pierce, “Congress Should Not Go on Vacation for Six Goddamn Weeks”, in Esquire:I know this may seem a bit out of the box, but isn't this a particularly lousy time in history for the Congress to go on vacation for six goddamn weeks.
- Where's the goddamn cartridge?
- You were in the background; you were a goddamn extra! That's good enough!
Synonyms
Synonyms
Translations
intensifier
- Arabic: مَلْعُون m (malʕūn)
- Bulgarian: пуст (bg) (pust), проклет (bg) (proklet)
- Danish: satans (da), helvedes
- Dutch: verdomd (nl), vervloekt (nl)
- Erzya: сюдозь-азозь (śudoź-azoź)
- Estonian: kuradima
- Finnish: perkeleen, saatanan, helvetin (fi)
- French: en diable (fr), sacré (fr)
- German: verdammt (de), gottverdammt (de), verflucht (de), höllisch (de)
- Greenlandic: -palaarsuaq
- Hungarian: átkozott (hu), rohadt (hu), istenverte (hu), kibaszott (hu), kurva (hu)
- Indonesian: laknat (id), jahanam (id), keparat (id), brengsek (id), sialan (id)
- Northern Sami: helveha
- Polish: cholera (pl), do diaska (pl), do diabła (pl), kurka (pl)
- Portuguese: maldito (pt) m, amaldiçoado (pt) m, do caramba (intensifier), o raio do
- Romanian: blestemat (ro) m, blestemată f
- Russian: (damned) прокля́тый (ru) (prokljátyj), про́клятый (ru) (prókljatyj), чёртов (ru) (čórtov) (devil's), ебаный (ru) (jebanyj) (vulgar)
- Serbo-Croatian: prokleti (sh) m
- Spanish: puto (es)
- Swedish: jävla (sv), satans (sv), helvetes (sv)
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Noun
goddamn (plural goddamns)
- (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly in the negative) A more emphatic form of damn.
I don't give a goddamn.
- Alternative form of goddam (“an English person, from French perspective”)
2009, Shane K. Bernard, The Cajuns: Americanization of a People, page 72:The goddamns (British soldiers) are coming / To steal your children. / Awaken! Awaken! / Acadian men / To save our heritage.
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