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smaken.

to taste

6 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈsmaː.kə(n)/

  1. to taste

    intransitive
    Deze soep smaakt me goed.

  2. to taste good, to be likable in taste

    intransitive
    Smaakt het?

  3. to experience; to enjoy

    proscribed · transitive
    Het succes van zijn noeste arbeid heeft hij niet meer mogen smaken.
    Laat het u smaken!
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch smaken, from Proto-West Germanic *smakēn (“to taste”). Equivalent to smaak + -en.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.