Puffern
German, noun[ˈpʊfɐn]
Puffern is spelled P-U-F-F-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 121,881st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puffern is a German masculine noun meaning “dative plural of Puffer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Puffern mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Puffer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Wirkung von etwas vermindern
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Puffern
- puffere present
- pufferst present
- puffert present
- pufferte past
- puffer! imperative singular
- puffere! imperative singular
- puffert! imperative plural
- gepuffert participle-2 perfect
- haben auxiliary perfect
- gepuffert haben active infinitive perfect
- gepuffert werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gepuffert worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- gepuffert sein statal-passive infinitive present
- gepuffert gewesen sein statal-passive infinitive perfect
- zu puffern active extended infinitive
- gepuffert zu haben active extended infinitive
- gepuffert zu werden processual-passive extended infinitive
- gepuffert worden zu sein processual-passive extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Puffern?
- [ˈpʊfɐn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Puffern in German?
Puffern appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).