The Dutch word for to smell is
ruiken
Dutch Definition
| smell | |
| 1. (je) ruikt | |
| 2. geur, reuk | |
| 3. ruiken |
Translations for smell and their definitions
| ruiken |  © | |
| 1. v. To smell (i.e. to perceive a smell) | ||
| Het is net alsof ik ruik / Dat de bloemen alweer bloeien / En de zon weer altijd brandt — It is just as if I smell / That the flowers are blooming again / And the sun be again always burn | ||
| 2. v. To smell (i.e. to emit a smell) | ||
| De houthakker rook naar kamille en goedkope parfum. - The lumberjack smelt like chamomile and cheap perfume. | ||
| geur | |
| 1. n-m. A scent, smell, odour, odor. | |
| 2. n-m. (figuratively) (notably the diminutive, with the indefinite article: een geurtje) An appearance, something associated, especially in a negative sense | |
| Ik betrouw dat zaakje niet, er zit een geurtje aan! - I don't trust that affair, there's something fishy about it! | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present indicative of geuren | |
| 4. v. imperative of geuren |
| reuk | |
| 1. n-f. smell |
| stank | |
| 1. n-m. stench |
| reukzin | |
| 1. n-m. sense of smell |
| geuren | |
| 1. v. to smell (have a particular smell) | |
| 2. n. plural of geur |
| stinken | |
| 1. v. to stink |
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