Butch: You okay?
Marsellus: Naw man. I'm pretty fuckin' far from
okay!
This is dialogue from the movie Pulp Fiction. What kind of the word class is "fuckin'" in the sentence: Participium or adjective? – The official translation of this sentence to my native language would probably be in English "I am pretty fucked," which, in my opinion, very properly and in the mode of black humor refers to the fact of Marsellu's having been raped.
Does the original English sentence have the similar connotation for English speakers?
Best Answer
"Fuckin'" here is an intensifier, and it modifies "far". The meaning is the same as "very", with the added connotation of expressing contempt for social propriety, since "fuckin'" is vulgar. Since "far" is an adjective, "fuckin'" is an adverb, if it matters. (That's not a "word class", though, that's a part of speech: the role played by the word in a specific sentence.)
Rewording it without slang, it's:
I wouldn't reword it as "I am pretty fucked," at least if you're trying to understand what "fuckin'" means. The word "fuckin'" in the sentence has nothing to do with Marsellus's having been raped. This sense of "fuckin'" is just a general-purpose intensifier for anything. For example, "That was one fuckin' good cup of coffee." That means that the cup of coffee was very, very good.