puffen

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʏfən

Etymology 1

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Noun

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puffen

  1. plural of puf

Etymology 2

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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

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puffen

  1. to puff, blow out (hot air, such as the chugging of a steam engine)
  2. (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.
Conjugation
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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, puf2 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. 2) In case of inversion.

German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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

Verb

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

  1. to puff
  2. to nudge

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • puffen” in Duden online
  • puffen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swedish

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Noun

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puffen

  1. definite singular of puff