Swedish verb· top 5,000 most common

tuffa

puffAlso the plural of tuff.

Meaning

puff

In Swedish: pusta som ett ånglok

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuffa (puff)
Infinitive	att tuffa	to puff
Present	tuffar	jag tuffar
Past	tuffade	jag tuffade
Supine	tuffat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har tuffat	jag har tuffat
Past perfect	hade tuffat	jag hade tuffat
Future	ska tuffa	or: kommer att tuffa
Conditional	skulle tuffa	jag skulle tuffa
Imperative	tuffa!	a command
Present participle	tuffande	-ing, used as an adjective

Passive (-s form)

Passive of tuffa
Infinitive	tuffas
Present	tuffas
Past	tuffades
Supine	tuffats

Group 1: -ar verbs. Present -ar, past -ade, supine -at. The largest and most regular group. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use tuffar. See the four verb groups explained.

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tuffa in a sentence

ångbåten tuffade förbi bryggan
the steamboat chugged past the pier

Questions

What does tuffa mean in English?

tuffa means “puff”.

What is the past tense of tuffa?

The past tense of tuffa is tuffade (“jag tuffade”). The supine is tuffat, used in “jag har tuffat”.

What is the present tense of tuffa?

tuffar, the same for every person: jag tuffar, du tuffar, vi tuffar.

Origin

From tuff (“choo”) + -a.

Nearby common words

tuffa is number 3,640 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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3,642halt content, percentage
3,643mjuk soft
3,644önskad wanted, wished for

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary