Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to sample the flavor of something:
to have a taste:
Русский
By meaning 2
to sample the flavor of something:
to have a taste:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to sample the flavor of something:
to have a taste:

Examples

1263 sentences

  1. The food didn't taste very good.

    Їжа була не дуже смачна. — deniko

    ruЕда была не очень вкусная. — marafon

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  2. The food didn't taste all that bad.

    Їжа на смак була не така вже й погана. — deniko

    deDas Essen hat gar nicht so schlecht geschmeckt. — Yorwba

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  3. This fruit doesn't taste good.

    Цей фрукт несмачний. — deniko

    ruЭтот фрукт невкусный. — marafon

    deDiese Frucht schmeckt nicht gut. — Manfredo

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Meaning

7 senses

  1. (transitive)To sample the flavor of something orally.

    kosten, probieren

    про́боватьpróbovatʹ, попро́боватьpopróbovatʹ

    смакува́тиsmakuváty, спро́буватиspróbuvaty, куштува́тиkuštuváty

  2. (copulative, intransitive)To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.

    The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.

    schmecken

    име́ть вку́сimétʹ vkús

    ма́ти смакmáty smak

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To experience.

    I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.

    They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

    kosten

More meanings 4

  1. (transitive)To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.

    I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake.

  2. To take sparingly.

  3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

  4. (obsolete)To try by the touch; to handle.

More definitions
  • have flavor; taste of something
  • perceive by the sense of taste
  • take a sample of
  • have a distinctive or characteristic taste

Origin

The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch

The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere.

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Forms

tastes, tasting, tasted, tasted

regular · Lesson

Base formtaste · to taste
3rd person singulartastes
Present participletasting
Past simpletasted
Past participletasted

Tenses

taste · tasted · will taste · have tasted

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytaste
he, she, ittastes

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tasted
he, she, ithas tasted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill taste

Past simpleLesson

all personstasted

Synonyms

7 synonyms
To sample the flavor of something orally:smack
To have a taste:hintB2
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words
Relatedtastingtaster
Deriveddistasteforetastemistastenontastingouttastepretasteretastetastabletaste blooduntasteuntasted

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

8 patterns
  • taste good
  • taste very good
  • taste in music
  • tastes really good
  • this soup tastes
  • soup tastes
  • tasted the soup
  • this wine tastes

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
taskA2tasseltastefultastefullytastelessB1taster

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