muffen
Appearance
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]muffen
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Middle Low German muffen (“to have a moldy smell”).
Verb
[edit]muffen (weak, third-person singular present mufft, past tense muffte, past participle gemufft, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial) to have a moldy smell
- (colloquial, generalized) to stink
- Synonym: (colloquial) miefen
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | muffen | ||||
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present participle | muffend | ||||
past participle | gemufft | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich muffe | wir muffen | i | ich muffe | wir muffen |
du muffst | ihr mufft | du muffest | ihr muffet | ||
er mufft | sie muffen | er muffe | sie muffen | ||
preterite | ich muffte | wir mufften | ii | ich muffte1 | wir mufften1 |
du mufftest | ihr mufftet | du mufftest1 | ihr mufftet1 | ||
er muffte | sie mufften | er muffte1 | sie mufften1 | ||
imperative | muff (du) muffe (du) |
mufft (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Denominal from Muffe.
Verb
[edit]muffen (weak, third-person singular present mufft, past tense muffte, past participle gemufft, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | muffen | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
present participle | muffend | ||||
past participle | gemufft | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich muffe | wir muffen | i | ich muffe | wir muffen |
du muffst | ihr mufft | du muffest | ihr muffet | ||
er mufft | sie muffen | er muffe | sie muffen | ||
preterite | ich muffte | wir mufften | ii | ich muffte1 | wir mufften1 |
du mufftest | ihr mufftet | du mufftest1 | ihr mufftet1 | ||
er muffte | sie mufften | er muffte1 | sie mufften1 | ||
imperative | muff (du) muffe (du) |
mufft (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
[edit]- “muffen” in Duden online
- “muffen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “muffen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]muffen
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- Danish non-lemma forms
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- German terms borrowed from Middle Low German
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- German lemmas
- German verbs
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- German verbs using haben as auxiliary
- German colloquialisms
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