pöfékel
Hungarian
Etymology
From an unattested onomatopoeic stem + -kel (frequentative suffix). Other words with the same stem: pöfög, pöfeteg.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpøfeːkɛl]
- Hyphenation: pö‧fé‧kel
- Rhymes: -ɛl
Verb
pöfékel
- (intransitive, somewhat humorous) to puff (to emit smoke in puffs; it can refer to a person while smoking cigarette or pipe, or to something such as a locomotive)
Conjugation
conjugation of pöfékel
1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | pöfékelek | pöfékelsz | pöfékel | pöfékelünk | pöfékeltek | pöfékelnek |
Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | pöfékeltem | pöfékeltél | pöfékelt | pöfékeltünk | pöfékeltetek | pöfékeltek | |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | pöfékelnék | pöfékelnél | pöfékelne | pöfékelnénk | pöfékelnétek | pöfékelnének |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | pöfékeljek | pöfékelj or pöfékeljél |
pöfékeljen | pöfékeljünk | pöfékeljetek | pöfékeljenek |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Infinitive | pöfékelni | pöfékelnem | pöfékelned | pöfékelnie | pöfékelnünk | pöfékelnetek | pöfékelniük | |
Other nonfinite verb forms |
Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
pöfékelés | pöfékelő | pöfékelt | ― | pöfékelve | pöfékelhet |
Derived terms
- pöfékelés
References
- pöfékel in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- pöfékel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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