So i am here in Japan with my useless n5 level trying to use as many simple phrases as I can to get more involved. Now, im currently in a ski resort in hokkaido, and sometimes I see these Japanese workers being evidently cold in the outside. Coming from Canada, sometimes it's a little funny to throw a "it's fucking cold isnt it?", to strangers, and I would like to try that phrase here. Normally I have been saying "寒ですね, and have always been greet with a smile back, as it's also clear that i am foreigner trying to make fun of the weather, and I would like to try クソ寒 trying to get a better reaction. Would that be too impolite for the Japanese culture among strangers? I also want to make sure this is not an insult to the person, and it actually means what I think it means "it's fucking cold!".
by Acceptable-Pair6753
9 comments
Try めっちゃ寒い instead
I wouldn’t recommend it.
Don’t use it, it will just make you sound impolite.
I would absolutely not say anything with クソ to strangers, especially staff. Curse words are treated differently in Japanese.
It wouldn’t really be normal to say it like that. Being a foreigner speaking Japanese will get you a little reaction, and you could ask staff at the resort maybe if there’s a local or informal way of saying “very cold” if you want something it would be really surprising for you to know about. I think you have to save your swearwords for the bar where people specifically want to know your rude vocabulary.
It’s not one to one but it’s close to saying “fucking cold”
If you want to make a クソ atmosphere, come off weird and make people uncomfortable, sure.
For the record, I would actually be surprised if a stranger randomly said “it’s fucking cold, isn’t it?” to me even in English. I’d just think they were a bit dim
You know you can just 寒いね
Adding です to an い adjective is fairly polite and not really necessary for casual conversation.
If you want to get across that it’s really damn cold, とても寒いね would get that across, and ymmv serious grain of salt but I have at least heard of using バカ as an amplifier in that sense, so バカ寒いね meaning along the lines of “It’s stupid cold, right?”
Would you say “it’s fucking cold” to someone that you don’t know? Japanese or not I mean.