puffen
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
puffen
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch puffen, sharing an imitative Proto-Germanic base with Old English pyffan, Middle English puffen, English puff. Compare Middle Low German puffen.
Verb edit
puffen
- to puff, blow out (hot air, such as the chugging of a steam engine)
- (Suriname) to flatulate, to break wind, to fart
- 2021 March 20, “Pastoor puft in mensen hun gezicht om ze te genezen [Pastor farts in people's faces to cure them]”, in GFC Nieuws[1], retrieved 21 March 2021:
- Een voorganger van een Zuid-Afrikaanse kerk beweert dat hij in de gezichten van zijn kerkbezoekers puft in een poging ze te genezen. De pastoor zit met zijn volle gewicht op de hoofden van de leden van zijn gemeenschap en puft vervolgens.
- A pastor of a South African church claims that he farts into the faces of his churchgoers in an attempt to cure them. The pastor sits with his full weight on the heads of the members of his community and then breaks wind.
Inflection edit
| Conjugation of puffen (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | puffen | |||
| past singular | pufte | |||
| past participle | gepuft | |||
| infinitive | puffen | |||
| gerund | puffen n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | puf | pufte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | puft | pufte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | puft | pufte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | puft | pufte | ||
| 3rd person singular | puft | pufte | ||
| plural | puffen | puften | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | puffe | pufte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | puffen | puften | ||
| imperative sing. | puf | |||
| imperative plur.1 | puft | |||
| participles | puffend | gepuft | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German buffen, sharing an imitative Proto-Germanic base with Old English pyffan, Middle English puffen, English puff. Compare also Middle Low German puffen, buffen, biffen, German Low German buffen (“to puff”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
puffen (weak, third-person singular present pufft, past tense puffte, past participle gepufft, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation edit
| infinitive | puffen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | puffend | ||||
| past participle | gepufft | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich puffe | wir puffen | i | ich puffe | wir puffen |
| du puffst | ihr pufft | du puffest | ihr puffet | ||
| er pufft | sie puffen | er puffe | sie puffen | ||
| preterite | ich puffte | wir pufften | ii | ich puffte1 | wir pufften1 |
| du pufftest | ihr pufftet | du pufftest1 | ihr pufftet1 | ||
| er puffte | sie pufften | er puffte1 | sie pufften1 | ||
| imperative | puff (du) puffe (du) |
pufft (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading edit
Swedish edit
Noun edit
puffen