fuck you

English

Alternative forms

• fuck-you (noun)
• fuk u (Internet slang)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌk‿ˌjuː/

• Audio (General American):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈfɐk‿ˌjʉː/

• Audio (Australia):

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Phrase

fuck you (idiomatic, vulgar)

1. (slang) Expresses discontent or contempt.

   Synonyms: fuck yourself, go fuck yourself, kill yourself

   So you're not gonna help me?! Well, fuck you!

   What made you decide to mistreat him? Fuck you, that's what.

   • 1936, Violations of free speech and assembly and interference with rights of labor: hearings before a subcommittee, Seventy-fourth Congress‎^[1], page 21061:

     And this was the time he heard Goldman say to Bennett, "Fuck you, you little bastard, we will get you later."

   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 25, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:

     If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

   • 2001, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (American Gods #1):

     "Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you" and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.

   • 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 25 August 2025:

     That’s nothing compared with the actions of Emil Bove, Trump’s new nominee for the US court of appeals for the third circuit, who reputedly told subordinates at the Department of Justice that they should “consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’” and ignoring any court order blocking a planned deportation flight.

2. (dismissal) Go away; go to hell.

   You’ve done enough to ruin our outing, so fuck you!

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck,‎ you.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:go away

Derived terms

• fuck-you finger
• fuck you, I got mine
• fuck you, I've got mine
• fuck you, Jack, I'm alright
• fuck-you lizard
• fuck you money
• fuck you very much
• funk you

Descendants

• → Mandarin: 法克魷 / 法克鱿 (fǎkèyóu, “fuck you”)
• → Japanese: ファッキュー
• → Tagalog: pakyu

Translations

fuck you

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} zhduku!, (offensive) ^{(please verify)} qerohu!, (vulgar), ^{(please verify)} ik qiu! (taboo; curse) ^{(please verify)} ik, or, pirdhu!, vafsh ne djall!
• Arabic: اللعنة عليك

  Egyptian Arabic: (your mother's cunt) كس أمك (kuss ummak)

• Armenian: ռադ էղի (ṙad ēġi), սիկտիրդ քաշի (siktird kʻaši) (offensive), քունեմ բերանդ (kʻunem berand) (very offensive, vulgar)
• Azerbaijani: sikdir, rədd ol, sikim ağzını, itil get, vızqırt, cəhənnəm ol
• Belarusian: пайшо́ў на́ хуй (pajšów ná xuj)
• Bulgarian: (obscene, very vulgar) да те еба (da te eba), еби се (ebi se), да ти го начукам (da ti go načukam), ходи се еби (hodi se ebi), майната ти (bg) (majnata ti)
• Catalan: fes-te fotre !, que et fotin ! (go get fucked), vés a la merda !, vés-te'n a la merda !
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屌你 (diu² nei⁵), 屌你老母 (diu² nei⁵ lou⁵ mou^5-2)

  Mandarin: 幹你媽 / 干你妈 (zh) (gàn nǐ mā) , 肏你媽 / 肏你妈 (zh) (cào nǐ mā, literally “fuck your mother”), 幹你娘 / 干你娘 (zh) (gàn nǐ niáng)

• Corsican: vaffanculu
• Czech: pojeb se! (fuck yourself!) jdi do prdele! (go to ass!), jdi do píči! (go to cunt!), jdi do hajzlu! (go to loo!)
• Danish: Knep dig selv, fuck dig
• Dutch: rot op (nl), donder op (nl), flikker op (nl), krijg de klere, krijg de kanker, krijg de tering
• Esperanto: forfikiĝu, fi al vi
• Estonian: tõmba vittu, mine/käi/keri putsi/munni/vittu
• Finnish: painu vittuun, haista paska (fi), haista vittu (fi), suksi vittuun
• French: je t'encule!, va te faire foutre ! (fr), allez vous faire foutre (fr) pl
• German: verpiss dich (piss off), fick dich
• Greek: άντε γαμήσου (ánte gamísou)

  Ancient Greek: ἐσκιμαλίχθαι σε χρή (eskimalíkhthai se khrḗ)

• Hebrew: לך תזדיין m (lekh tizdayén), לך לעזאזל m (lekh la`azazél)
• Hungarian: (all are vulgar) baszd meg (hu), baszódj meg, dögölj meg (hu), menj a picsába, (between males) kapd be (hu)
• Icelandic: farðu í rassgat, farðu til fjandans, farðu til helvítis, ríddu þér
• Indonesian: (vulgar, taboo) ngentot lu!, bajingan kamu!, dasar brengsek!, keparat (id), persetan dengan kau! (literally “demonize yourself!”), (dialectal) cukimai (id)
• Interlingua: futue te
• Irish: damnú ort!, damnú oraibh! pl, focáil leat!, focáil libh! pl
• Italian: vaffanculo (it), fottiti, va' a farti fottere
• Japanese: 死ね (ja) (shine, literally “die!”), くたばれ (kutabare, literally “keel over!”), くそ食らえ (kuso kurae, literally “eat shit!”), 糞垂れ (くそったれ, kusottare, literally “dingleberry”)
• Javanese: jancok
• Khmer: ទៅណាឲបាត់ទៅ (toh naa ao bat tɨv)
• Korean: 엿먹어 (yeonmeogeo), 좆까라 (jotkkara), 니애미 (niaemi)
• Latin: futue te ipsum
• Lithuanian: eik velniop!, eik po velnių!
• Lombard: va a fà-t cjavà (va a fàt ciaà) (Eastern), va a cjapà i ratj (va a ciapà i ratt) (Milanese), va a fà-t inculà (va a fàt encülà) (Brescian)
• Macedonian: е́би се (ébi se), да те е́бам (da te ébam), да ти го на́чукам (da ti go náčukam)
• Malay: puki mak kau, pukimak (ms) (literally “your mother's organ”)

  Manado Malay: cukimai

• Mongolian: пизда (pizda)
• Norwegian: faen ta deg, føkk deg
• Persian: کیرم دهنت (kiram dahanet, literally “my dick in your mouth”)
• Polish: pierdol się (pl), chrzań się (pl), wal się, jeb się, odpierdol się, chuj ci w dupę (pl), spierdalaj, spieprzaj, idź w pizdu (vulgar), chuj ci w oko (vulgar)
• Portuguese: vai-te foder (go fuck yourself), fode-te (fuck yourself), (very vulgar, offensive), vai para o caralho (pt) (go to the dick), vá tomar no cu (pt) (go take it in the ass) (Brazil), tome no cu (Brazil)
• Romanian: (obscene, very vulgar, offensive) să te fut (fuck you), futu-te (fuck you (contraction of "să te fut")), pișa-m-aș pe tine (may I piss on you), să-ți dau la muie (may I give you it to the mouth), ți-o dau la muie (I give you to the mouth), te bag în pizda mă-tii (I put you in your mother's cunt), muie (ro) (blowjob), îmi bag pula în tine (I put my dick in you), du-te la dracu' (go to the devil), du-te la naiba (go to hell), du-te dracului (ro) (go to the devil), du-te în căcat (go into shit), du-te în pula mea (go into my dick), du-te în pizda mă-tii (go into your mother's cunt), du-te în futere (go in fuck), du-te în sloboz (go in cum), du-te în morții mă-tii (go into your mother's dead relatives), du-te în morții și răniții mă-tii (go into your mother's dead and wounded relatives), du-te în gâtul mă-tii (go into your mother's neck)
• Russian: ебать тебя (jebatʹ tebja), пошёл на́ хуй (pošól ná xuj), хуй тебе́ в зу́бы (xuj tebé v zúby), хуй тебе́ в лоб (xuj tebé v lob), иди в жопу (idi v žopu), соси хуй (ru) (sosi xuj), иди на хуй (ru) (idi na xuj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеби се

  Latin: jebi se

• Sicilian: vafanculu, vâ caca, vâ vidi cu' tâ ficca, vâ vidi cu' tâ sbrijinzija
• Slovak: pojeb sa
• Spanish: jódete (es) (fuck yourself), (Mexico) chíngate (es) (fuck yourself), que te jodan (es) (go get fucked), vete a la mierda (go to the shit), vete a la verga ((go) to the dick (to get fucked)), a tomar por culo (es), que te den por el culo, a tomar por el culo, me cago en ti (i shit on you), que te folle un pez (es) (I hope you get fucked by a fish). andá a cagar (es) (Go to shit)
• Sranan Tongo: yu mama panpan, yu mama pima, nyan mi mars
• Swedish: kyss fittan (kiss the cunt) ^{(please verify)} dra åt fittan, (go to the cunt), ^{(please verify)} dra åt kuken, (go to the dick) dra åt helvete (sv) (go to hell)
• Tagalog: putang ina mo
• Turkish: siktir git
• Ukrainian: пішо́в на́ хуй (pišóv ná xuj)
• Vietnamese: đệt mẹ mày, địt mẹ mày, đụ má mày (vi)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Noun

fuck you (plural fuck yous)

1. (vulgar) An insulting and humiliating action against somebody.

   Humiliating your kid on national television for a short-term profit is one of the biggest fuck yous that a parent can ever give to their own child.

   • 2023 May 6, Hannah Murphy, quoting Evan Henshaw-Plath, “Twitter’s co-founder moves against Musk”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

     I think there is a bit of a desire to be active in funding these alternatives as a fuck you to both Wall Street and Elon Musk.

See also

• fuck your mother