medusinestories:Okay first? If there weren’t dozens of French people bitching in the comments about
medusinestories:Okay first? If there weren’t dozens of French people bitching in the comments about this being French and not Parisian, I would have been very disappointed. (seriously, these are all mostly general French expressions, and a number of these are also used in Belgium and Switzerland)Second, a little language lesson on bordel, which has many meanings.Bordel, originally, is a brothel.Je suis allé au bordel me payer du bon temps. “I went to have some fun at the whorehouse”.We use the word bordel a lot in French, but usually not literally for a brothel. The next ones are the most common uses.Bordel can be used to talk about a mess, or general chaos.“Mais tu as vu le bordel dans ta chambre?!” Did you see the mess in your room?!C’est le bordel dans la rue à cause des travaux “The street’s in chaos because of the roadworks.”Quel bordel! “What a mess!”But bordel alone is used as an exclamation of anger, disappointment or even surprise. You could replace it with “damn!” “crap!” “shit!” or “fuck!” depending on the tone of your sentence. (reminder: there is no French equivalent to the f-bomb. Instead, you tend to combine mildly rude words until you get to the desired intensity).Dépèche toi, bordel! “Hurry up, damn it!” Bordel, j’ai raté mon train! “Shit, I missed my train.”Putain de bordel de merde! (whore + brothel + shit) “FUCK!!!!” -- source link