Translation
to smell (something), to sniff
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Word origin
From French flairer, to sniff out, which goes back through Vulgar Latin to fragrare ('to give off a smell'). English took the same French verb as the noun flair, the nose for a thing.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- flairer
- English cognates
- flair, fragrant, fragrance
Examples
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The dog sniffed the road.
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I can smell the scent of fresh bread.
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Smell this flower, it is sweet.
English smell does two jobs and only does one of them. is what the nose actively does: you the bread. What the bread does back, giving off a smell, is , and the smell itself is the . Keep the two apart and a whole class of beginner sentences stops going wrong.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 17, lesson 2: flari, avantaĝo, heziti and 7 more words.