il fichait

didn't care (about)

→ ficher
verb · 3rd-person singular, imperfect tense Rare #34,679
didn't care (about) Colloquial; used here in the expression se ficher de.
FR: Elle se fichait de la pluie.
EN: She didn't care about the rain.
Conjugation of ficher
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
Third fichait —

Tom a dit que Marie se fichait de ce qu'il a fait.

Tom said that Marie didn’t care what he had done.

Il s'en fichait.

He didn't care.

Il s'en fichait de tout.

He didn't care about anything.

Il se fichait de moi.

He was making fun of me.

— Men in Black (1997)

Il fichait le feu à la maison !

He set the house on fire!

— Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Yanni s'en fichait.

Yanni didn't care.

Il se fichait du Christ.

He didn’t care about Christ.

— Wake Up Dead Man : Une histoire à couteaux tirés (2025)

Mais on s'en fichait.

But we didn’t care.

— Forrest Gump (1994)

C'était un humain, mais il se fichait de ce que j'étais.

He was human, but he didn't care what I was.

— Ne Zha (2019)

Mais le gouvernement des riches se fichait de nos problèmes.

But the government of the rich didn't care about our problems.

— La Cité de Dieu (2002)