pouffer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.fe/

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Verb

pouffer

1. (intransitive) to burst out (with laughter); to crack up

Conjugation

Conjugation of pouffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pouffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pouffant /pu.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pouffé /pu.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pouffe /puf/	pouffes /puf/	pouffe /puf/	pouffons /pu.fɔ̃/	pouffez /pu.fe/	pouffent /puf/
	imperfect	pouffais /pu.fɛ/	pouffais /pu.fɛ/	pouffait /pu.fɛ/	pouffions /pu.fjɔ̃/	pouffiez /pu.fje/	pouffaient /pu.fɛ/
	past historic2	pouffai /pu.fe/	pouffas /pu.fa/	pouffa /pu.fa/	pouffâmes /pu.fam/	pouffâtes /pu.fat/	pouffèrent /pu.fɛʁ/
	future	poufferai /pu.fʁe/	poufferas /pu.fʁa/	pouffera /pu.fʁa/	poufferons /pu.fʁɔ̃/	poufferez /pu.fʁe/	poufferont /pu.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	poufferais /pu.fʁɛ/	poufferais /pu.fʁɛ/	poufferait /pu.fʁɛ/	poufferions /pu.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	poufferiez /pu.fə.ʁje/	poufferaient /pu.fʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	pouffe /puf/	pouffes /puf/	pouffe /puf/	pouffions /pu.fjɔ̃/	pouffiez /pu.fje/	pouffent /puf/
	imperfect2	pouffasse /pu.fas/	pouffasses /pu.fas/	pouffât /pu.fa/	pouffassions /pu.fa.sjɔ̃/	pouffassiez /pu.fa.sje/	pouffassent /pu.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pouffe /puf/	—	pouffons /pu.fɔ̃/	pouffez /pu.fe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “pouffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.