It’s unfair, of course, but only summer and spring are associated with pleasant smells. In spring, nature comes to life, in summer it is in its prime, and autumn and winter have their own aromas, but no fragrance is felt. Today we will learn to express our admiration for nature, that is, we will talk about what “fragrance” is, this is our object of study today.
Value
Anything can be fragrant (within certain limits). Masterfully cooked dish or a person using expensive perfumes. But what’s interesting is that the infinitive most of all evokes thoughts of summer or spring aroma. It somehow doesn’t occur to us that potatoes cooked with special seasonings can be fragrant, after all, these are not meadow flowers. Let’s see what the dictionary thinks about it: “It is pleasant to smell, to publish aroma”.
Sentences with the word
And in this case, it is best to make three sentences in order to understand the meaning of the word “fragrance”:
- "Ivan Petrovich came to work, fragrant, like a summer meadow."
- "Roman handed flowers to Natalia, they smelled as if he had just picked them."
- “Oh, Arkashka, you don’t understand anything. Do you remember how grass smells at dawn? No, because you don’t get up before noon. ”
It can be seen from the examples that sentences that include the verb we are analyzing immediately become a little more noble, because “fragrance” is the word in book vocabulary.
Antonyms
Therefore, when we do not like the smell, we can use the verb only in an ironic manner. For example: “My son came from school. His gaze was guilty. I didn’t have a runny nose, so I felt very good how he was actually smelling cigarettes, but he smelled more guilty. ”
Such use is possible, but one must be careful with it. In general, for unpleasant odors have their own verbs:
- stink;
- to pour;
- carry;
- stink.
Of course, it is possible that the flowers “stink”, but for this the girl should be allergic either to the beautiful creations of nature themselves or to the one who presented them. In other words, whatever that guy does, everything will be past. Unpleasant odors can also exude plants that have long been unattended, but all this is extreme cases. But back to a more pleasant topic - the fragrance infinitive, it is much more interesting. We discuss those verbs that are appropriate to use together with the object of study.
Do we hear or smell?
Good question, and purely linguistic. We will not torment the reader for a long time and say: the right option is to “feel”. Those who say hear are slightly wrong. A similar form is in the language, but it is already safely outdated and remains only in spoken language. If the reader is in doubt, then open Ozhegov’s explanatory dictionary. Everything is written in a wise book.
Language is a living entity; therefore, norms are mobile. What used to be the norm, now it is not and remains in colloquial speech, and vice versa. Sometimes, when distribution becomes ubiquitous, some form is claimed to be "permissible." As, for example, this happened with coffee, which suddenly became also of a secondary kind. A similar innovation was immediately beaten by comedians. But they “heard the smell” earlier, until about the middle of the 20th century, now they only “feel” it.
But sometimes people, knowing full well about modern norms, stylize their speech in antiquity, it is difficult to say how justified it is, because it all depends on who the conversation is with. But the reader must remember that the normative option is to “feel” and nothing else.
We hope it’s clear what fragrance is. It is not difficult to remember, if you be careful.