puffen

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʏfən

Etymology 1

Noun

puffen

  1. Plural form of puf

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch puffen, sharing an imitative Proto-Germanic base with Old English pyffan, Middle English puffen, English puff.

Verb

puffen

  1. to puff, blow out (hot air, such as the chugging of a steam engine)
Inflection
Inflection of puffen (weak)
infinitive puffen
past singular pufte
past participle gepuft
infinitive puffen
gerund puffen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular pufpufte
2nd person sing. (jij) puftpufte
2nd person sing. (u) puftpufte
2nd person sing. (gij) puftpufte
3rd person singular puftpufte
plural puffenpuften
subjunctive sing.1 puffepufte
subjunctive plur.1 puffenpuften
imperative sing. puf
imperative plur.1 puft
participles puffendgepuft
1) Archaic.

German

Alternative forms

  • büffen (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German buffen, sharing an imitative Proto-Germanic base with Old English pyffan, Middle English puffen, English puff.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʊfn̩]
  • Hyphenation: puf‧fen
  • (file)

Verb

puffen (third-person singular simple present pufft, past tense puffte, past participle gepufft, auxiliary haben)

  1. to puff
  2. to nudge

Conjugation

Further reading

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