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

Verb

pöfékel

  1. (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
Infinitive pöfékelni
Past participle pöfékelt
Present participle pöfékelő
Future participle -
Adverbial participle pöfékelve
Potential pöfékelhet
1st person sg 2nd person sg informal 3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal		 1st person pl 2nd person pl informal 3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative mood Present Indefinite pöfékelek pöfékelsz pöfékel pöfékelünk pöfékeltek pöfékelnek
Definite intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
Past Indefinite pöfékeltem pöfékeltél pöfékelt pöfékeltünk pöfékeltetek pöfékeltek
Definite -
Conditional mood Present Indefinite pöfékelnék pöfékelnél pöfékelne pöfékelnénk pöfékelnétek pöfékelnének
Definite -
Subjunctive mood Present Indefinite pöfékeljek pöfékelj
or
pöfékeljél		 pöfékeljen pöfékeljünk pöfékeljetek pöfékeljenek
Definite -
Conjugated infinitive pöfékelnem pöfékelned pöfékelnie pöfékelnünk pöfékelnetek pöfékelniük

Derived terms
  • pöfékelés

References
  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
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