riechen

From Middle High German riechen, from Old High German riohhan, from Proto-West Germanic *reukan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną.

Compare English reek, Dutch rieken, Danish ryge, Swedish ryka. See also Rauch, Geruch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁiːçn̩/, /ˈʁiːçən/

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riechen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present riecht, past tense roch, past participle gerochen, past subjunctive röche, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to smell (something); to sniff (something)
2. (intransitive) to use the sense of smell; to detect a smell
3. (transitive) to smell something

   Ich rieche dein Parfüm.

   I smell your perfume.

4. (intransitive) to reek; to smell bad
5. (copulative) to smell [with nach (+ dative) ‘like/of something’]

   Im Haus riecht es nach gebratenem Fisch.

   In the house it smells like fried fish.

   Der Kuchen riecht lecker!

   The cake smells delicious!

6. (transitive, slang) to tolerate (someone); to stand (someone)

   Ich kann ihn nicht riechen.

   I cannot stand him.

• “riechen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “riechen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “riechen” in Duden online
• “riechen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• riechen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Inherited from Old High German riohhan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈriə̯xən/

riechen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present riuchet, past tense rouch, past participle gerochen, past subjunctive rüche, auxiliary hān)

1. (intransitive) to smoke, to steam, to smell, to smell pleasantly
2. (transitive) [with accusative] to smell

• German: riechen

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “riechen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel