Dirty diapers. A stinky sock. Or there’s a dead spider in the bathtub. All this can be succinctly described with an Italian term: disgust (Total / nausea / disgust).
disgust
Nausea/nausea/disgust
The term originated from Old French Boat and Old Frankish *skiermeaning to respect/revere something.
you will often see disgust with verb fare (do/do). suck make”disgusting,” or”become vulgar” Use a spoken translation.
Fast food is terrible. I never eat it.
Fast food is disgusting. I never eat it.
When the indirect acceptor pronoun is like rice, of, this etc., the most appropriate translation is “make (someone) sick” or”to disgust (someone)”.
insect this They suck.
Insects made him sick.
His behavior is truly disgusting to me.
His behavior is truly disgusting to me.
instead of saying suckyou can also use the verb disgusthave the same meaning (e.g. snakes disgust me = Snakes make me sick).reflexive feel disgusted Also exists, often followed by a preposition Every (for). Various translations include:
- be disgusted
- Nausea
- disgust
- disgust
- feel disgusted
Another verb you’ll see is with disgust yes trymeaning”Feel”. In this case the translation would be “feel disgusted”.
By extension, disgust It can also be expressed as horrible or bad Not necessarily stomach-churning. In fact, it is often used to describe political, social, or sports team failure.English spoken expressions that are completely consistent with this usage disgust yes”suck”.
Our team is really bad this year.
Our team is really bad this year.
Within a few days of arriving in Italy, you’re bound to hear a classic statement of disgust: How disgusting! Can be translated with any of the following English expressions:
Don’t pick your nose! How disgusting!
Don’t stick your fingers up your nose! oops!
If that’s not enough disgust It can also refer to something that causes disgust.For example, you can express a meal or a vacation a mess.Used in this way, it becomes a close synonym Rubbish (Disgusting stuff).
This burger is so awful the meat tastes like cardboard!
This burger was disgusting (literally “disgusting thing”). The meat tastes like cardboard!
Related disgust also an adjective disgusting:
- This is a disgusting movie! / This is a terrible movie! (This is a disgusting movie!)
- The weather is so bad! / The weather is disgusting! (The weather is so bad! / What a terrible weather!)
Here are the masculine definite and indefinite articles you will see disgust (Note that the plural form is less common):
- disgust = disgusting things
- fools = disgusting things
- a mess = a disgusting thing
- disgusting = (some) disgusting things
Finally, let’s delve into the expression disgusting (literally “make you sick”). It is used to express jealousy while implying some kind of negative judgment. For example:
- rich as hell = Stinky rich (literally “so rich it makes you sick”)
- disgustingly beautiful = Disgustingly handsome (literally means “so handsome that it makes you sick”)
- Delighted = so fucking happy (literally “so happy it makes you feel sick”)
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
