schnapps
A type of distilled alcoholic beverage, often with a herbal or fruit flavoring,…A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable, usually)A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.
apple schnapps; peach schnapps
Schnaps
шнапсšnaps
шнапсšnaps
(countable, usually)A serving of this beverage.
- any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes
Examples
10 sentencesDo you have any schnapps?
У тебе є шнапс? — deniko
Do you have any more schnapps?
Before he went to the dentist, Tom drank a glass of schnapps.
deBevor er zum Zahnarzt ging, hatte Tom einen Schnaps getrunken. — felix63
Tom drank a glass of schnapps before he went to the dentist.
Before Tom went to the dentist, he drank a glass of schnapps.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from German Schnaps.Borrowed from German Schnaps.
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Forms
plural: schnappses / schnappsSynonyms
1 synonyms- any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes:schnaps
Word family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.