In French, how do you add swear words to a question?

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I know only a few words in French so i can’t translate the sentence you put in your question “Putain… on est censé faire quoi?”, but the first word might translate to whore/prostutute, since in Spanish it is puta and in Greek it is putana. If that is correct, it could have been something like: “You son of a bitch/whore, what are we supposed to do now?”.

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