sentir

Ça sent bon.

It smells good.

Ça sent la pluie.

It looks like rain.

Ce repas sent l’ail.

This meal smells/tastes of garlic.

Vivre c'est sentir.

To live is to feel.

J'arrive à le sentir.

I can feel it.

Laisse-moi le sentir.

Let me feel it.

Pouvez-vous le sentir?

Can you smell it?

J'ai commencé à me sentir agité.

I started feeling restless.

Ziri a commencé à sentir mauvais.

Ziri started to stink.

Tom me fait sentir en sûreté.

Tom makes me feel safe.

Mary a prétendu se sentir insultée.

Mary pretended to be insulted.

Lui cherchant alors un nom qui ne s’écartât pas trop du sien, qui sentît et représentât la grande dame et la princesse, il vint à l’appeler Dulcinée du Toboso, parce qu’elle était native de ce village : nom harmonieux à son avis, rare et distingué, et non moins expressif que tous ceux qu’il avait donnés à son équipage et à lui-même.

Through searching himself thus for a name that did not diverge too much from his own, that would give a feeling of and represent the great lady and princess, he came to call her Dulcinea del Toboso, because she was a native of this village [Toboso]: a name in his opinion harmonious, rare and distinguished, and no less expressive than all the ones that he had given to his team and to himself.