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Originally Posted by sosia
Since we're entering the colorful and amazing world of Spanish insults , wait for a native . Here you have some options:
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Son of a bitch
Son of the great bitch
literal: "the mother who gave birth to him."
La madre que me parió = **** me! (as surprise)
La madre que te parió = **** you!
Saludos D:
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I don't believe I've ever heard this insult before.
The literal translation provided by sosia wouldn't be considered an insult in any sense. So, I had to go hunting for the reason this seemingly innocent phrase could even be used as an insult.
The DRAE and another source reason that this sentence fragment is an insult because human beings don't
parir (to give birth to an animal, to calve, to foal, to lamb, to reproduce some thing, etc.). Some of the dictionaries I checked say that
parir can indeed be used to describe human birth.
At any rate, since this a Spanish insult (I don't know if it's used elsewhere), the phrases that sosia provided in the hidden section are accurate. More phrases could be added, from vulgar to lesser degrees of vulgarity. The politest insult I came across is
blasted. The fragment is used as an interjection, so a single English word can be substituted (like the bad four-letter word that sosia alluded to, or the much-less-vulgar blasted).