嗅ぐ – Vocabulary details

嗅かぐ

Verb (5-dan, ぐ, transitive)

1. to sniff; to smell

この風かぜの匂においを嗅かぐと、少すこしだけ優やさしい気き持もちになれる。When I smell this breeze, I feel a little gentler.

sniff

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Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead); (being a) fuss-pot; complaining about things in the public eye

僕ぼくは匂においを嗅かいだ。

I sniffed the smell.

久ひさしぶりに嗅かぐ匂においです。

It is a scent I am smelling for the first time in a long while.

犬いぬは棒ぼうの匂においを嗅かいでいた。

The dog was sniffing a stick.

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