schmecken

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German smecken, from Old High German smecchen, from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku (“a taste”). Compare English smack and smatch, as well as Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈʃmɛkn̩], [ˈʃmɛkŋ̩] Rhymes: -ɛkn̩ === Verb === schmecken (weak, third-person singular present schmeckt, past tense schmeckte, past participle geschmeckt, auxiliary haben) (copulative) to taste [with adjective ‘good, bad, sweet, salty, etc.’ or nach (+ dative) ‘like something’] to enjoy (the taste of something) (intransitive) to taste good [(sometimes) with dative] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Schmecken === Further reading === “schmecken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “schmecken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “schmecken” in Duden online “schmecken” in OpenThesaurus.de