emmerder

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ merde +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

emmerder

1. (transitive, mildly vulgar) to bug, bother, irritate "the shit out of" someone

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fr:embêter

   Il m’emmerde avec ses gamineries ! ― He's a pain with his childish nonsense!

   • 2022 January 4, Emmanuel Macron, quotee, “Covid-19 : Emmanuel Macron assume sa stratégie d’« emmerder » les non-vaccinés”, in Le Monde‎^[1]:

     Moi, je ne suis pas pour emmerder les Français. Je peste toute la journée contre l’administration quand elle les bloque. Eh bien là, les non-vaccinés, j’ai très envie de les emmerder.

     I'm not for bothering the French. I rail all day against the administration when it blocks them. Well, the non-vaccinated, I really desire to bother them.

2. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun, vulgar) to bother with

   Synonym: se faire chier avec/à, se casser le cul à

   ils ne se sont pas emmerdés avec ça ― they didn't bother themselves with that

   je me suis emmerdé à réparer cette saleté ― I toiled fixing this piece of junk

3. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun, vulgar) to be bored

   Synonym: se faire chier

   Ah, ce qu’on s’emmerde ici ! ― Man, it's so boring here!

4. (transitive, vulgar) used to tell someone to bug off

   Je t’emmerde ! ― Screw you!

   • South Park:

     Je vous emmerde et je rentre à ma maison !

     Screw you guys, I'm going home!

Conjugation

Conjugation of emmerder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	emmerder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	emmerdant /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		emmerdé /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/	emmerdes /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/	emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/	emmerdons /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɔ̃/	emmerdez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/	emmerdent /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/
	imperfect	emmerdais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/	emmerdais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/	emmerdait /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/	emmerdions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.djɔ̃/	emmerdiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dje/	emmerdaient /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/
	past historic2	emmerdai /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/	emmerdas /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da/	emmerda /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da/	emmerdâmes /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dam/	emmerdâtes /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dat/	emmerdèrent /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	emmerderai /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁe/	emmerderas /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁa/	emmerdera /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁa/	emmerderons /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	emmerderez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁe/	emmerderont /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	emmerderais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɛ/	emmerderais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɛ/	emmerderait /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɛ/	emmerderions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	emmerderiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁje/	emmerderaient /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/	emmerdes /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/	emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/	emmerdions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.djɔ̃/	emmerdiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dje/	emmerdent /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/
	imperfect2	emmerdasse /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.das/	emmerdasses /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.das/	emmerdât /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da/	emmerdassions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	emmerdassiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da.sje/	emmerdassent /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/	—	emmerdons /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɔ̃/	emmerdez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Synonyms

• (to bug, bother, irritate ("the shit out of") someone): agacer (proper), casser les couilles (vulgar), casser les pieds (familiar), énerver (proper), emmachiner (minced oath), ennuyer (proper), enquiquiner (minced oath), faire chier (vulgar), importuner (proper)

Coordinate terms

• (to bother with): se taper, se farcir, se coltiner

Derived terms

• emmerde
• emmerdement
• emmerdeur

Further reading

• “emmerder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.