BEOLINGUS
Dictionary - TU Chemnitz

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übler Geruch {m}; Gestank {m} bad smell; foul smell; malodour [Br.]; malodor [Am.]; malodorousness [formal]; fetidness; foetidness [Br.]; stench; stink; reek; pong [Br.] [coll.]; guff [Sc.] [listen] [listen]

Stunk machen [ugs.] to make a stink; to cause a stink [coll.]

stinken {vi} (nach etw.) to smell {smelled / smelt [Br.]; smelled / smelt [Br.]}; to stink {stank/stunk, stunk} (of sth.) [listen] [listen]

stinkend smelling; stinking

gestinkt smelled; smelt [Br.]; stunk

er/sie/es stinkt he/she/it smells; he/she/it stinks

ich/er/sie/es stank I/he/she/it smelled / smelt [Br.]; I/he/she/it stank

er/sie/es hat/hatte gestunken he/she/it has/had smelled / smelt [Br.]; he/she/it has/had stunk

ich/er/sie/es stänke I/he/she/it would stink

Seine Kleider stanken nach Fisch. His clothes smelled / stank of fish.

Wenn ich nicht bald zum Duschen komme, fange ich an zu stinken. If I don't get a shower soon I'll start to smell / stink.

Da stinkt's. It smells in here.

Da stinkt etwas. Something stinks in here.

Uh, was stinkt denn da so? Whew, what smells?

In dem Raum war ein Gestank sondergleichen. The room smelled / smelt [Br.] to high heaven.

Die ganze Sache stinkt zum Himmel. [übtr.] This whole situation stinks to high heaven. [fig.]