Ein äußerst beleidigendes Schimpfwort für einen schwulen Mann.
A very offensive slur for a gay man.
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Er wurde gesperrt, weil er einem Fan dieses Wort zugerufen hatte. — He was suspended for shouting that word at a fan.
Sie trug ein Bündel trockenes Holz. — She carried a faggot of dry wood.
Das Wort steht auf jeder Sperrliste der Moderation. — The word faggot is on every moderation blacklist.
Binde die Zweige zu einem Bündel, bevor du sie verbrennst. — Bind the branches into a faggot before you burn them.
Wer jemanden so nennt, fliegt aus der Mannschaft. — Calling anyone a faggot gets you removed from the team.
Ein Reisigbündel brennt im offenen Ofen schnell ab. — A faggot burns quickly in an open stove.
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testThe German slur is written out in full where English writes the f-slur. German has traditionally had no convention of naming a taboo word by its initial — the word is printed and the reader is expected to see from the context that it is being discussed rather than used. Calques such as das N-Wort are arriving, but they are recent and confined to writing about racism.
That is a difference of typographic culture, not of severity: the word is as unusable in German as its counterpart is in English. Schwuchtel is built on schwul, gay, with a suffix that does the damage — and schwul itself has been reclaimed and is now the ordinary neutral word, used by the community and in legislation alike.
schwul gay
Reclaimed and fully neutral in modern German, including in law. The English cognate took no such path.
schwül muggy, humid
One umlaut apart from schwul and about the weather. A famous trap, and one Germans joke about.
homosexuell homosexual
The clinical term, and in German it sounds as dated and distancing as in English.
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