pouffer
French
Verb
pouffer
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.