Sentences with German verb grinsen

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Present

  • Worüber grinst du so? 
    English What are you smirking about?
  • Er grinst vor sich hin. 
    English He's grinning to himself.
  • Er grinst wie ein Honigkuchenpferd. 
    English He grins like a honey cake horse.
  • Er grinst wie ein Dieb im Pferdestall. 
    English He grins like a thief in the stable.

Imperfect

  • Sogar Tom grinste . 
    English Even Tom grinned.
  • Tom saß nur da und grinste . 
    English Tom just sat there grinning.
  • Er lockerte seine Krawatte und grinste . 
    English He loosened his tie and grinned.
  • Ich grinste innerlich über meine Paranoia des Vortags. 
    English I smiled inwardly at my paranoia from the day before.
  • Er grinste selbstgefällig. 
    English He grinned self-satisfied.
  • Der griechische Physiker grinste sarkastisch. 
    English The Greek physicist grinned sarcastically.
  • Die Stiefmutter grinste höhnisch über Aschenputtel. 
    English The stepmother sneered at Cinderella.
  • Aus dem Innern der Pappe grinste ein Glücksschwein. 
    English From the inside of the cardboard grinned a lucky pig.

Present Subj.

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Imperf. Subj.

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Imperative

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Infinitive

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Participle

  • Er hat selbstgefällig gegrinst . 
    English He grinned self-satisfied.

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Indicative

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  • Sogar Tom grinste . 
    English Even Tom grinned.
  • Worüber grinst du so? 
    English What are you smirking about?
  • Er grinst vor sich hin. 
    English He's grinning to himself.
  • Tom saß nur da und grinste . 
    English Tom just sat there grinning.
  • Er grinst wie ein Honigkuchenpferd. 
    English He grins like a honey cake horse.
  • Er lockerte seine Krawatte und grinste . 
    English He loosened his tie and grinned.
  • Er grinst wie ein Dieb im Pferdestall. 
    English He grins like a thief in the stable.
  • Ich grinste innerlich über meine Paranoia des Vortags. 
    English I smiled inwardly at my paranoia from the day before.
  • Er grinste selbstgefällig. 
    English He grinned self-satisfied.
  • Der griechische Physiker grinste sarkastisch. 
    English The Greek physicist grinned sarcastically.
  • Die Stiefmutter grinste höhnisch über Aschenputtel. 
    English The stepmother sneered at Cinderella.
  • Aus dem Innern der Pappe grinste ein Glücksschwein. 
    English From the inside of the cardboard grinned a lucky pig.

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Subjunctive

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Conditional (würde)

Imperative

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Translations

Translation of German grinsen


German grinsen
English grin, smirk, sneer, smile, smile broadly
Russian ухмыляться, насмешливо улыбаться, оскаливать, оскаливаться, оскалить, оскалиться, осклабиться, осклабляться
Spanish esbozar una sonrisa, sonreír, sonrisa amplia, sonreír irónicamente
French ricaner, sourire, grimacer
Turkish sırıtmak, gülümsemek
Portuguese sorrir de esguelha, sorrir ironicamente, sorrir, sorriso, sorriso largo
Italian sogghignare, ghignare, sghignazzare, sorridere
Romanian grimasă, zâmbet, zâmbet larg
Hungarian vigyorog, grimaszol, mosolyog
Polish szczerzyć się, szeroki uśmiech, uśmiechać się
Greek ψευτογελώ, σκάω χαμόγελο, χαμογελώ, χαμόγελο
Dutch grijnzen, grijnslachen, grinniken, glimlachen
Czech grimasit, úsměv, široce se usmívat
Swedish flina, le, grina, hånle
Danish grine, smil, smile
Japanese ニヤニヤ笑う, にっこり笑う, にやり笑う, 微笑む, 笑顔
Catalan somriure
Finnish virnistää, irvistellä, hymyillä, hymyillä leveästi
Norwegian flire, glise, smil, smilende
Basque irri, zabal irribarre
Serbian cerekati se, široko se smejati
Macedonian насмевка, широко се смее
Slovenian smejati se, grin, nasmejati se
Slowakisch úsmev, škeriť sa
Bosnian grin, osmijeh, široko se smiješiti
Croatian osmijeh, smijati se, smiješak
Ukrainian насміхатися, посмішка, усмішка, широко усміхатися
Bulgarian усмивка, широка усмивка
Belorussian усміхацца, шырока ўсміхацца
Hebrewחיוך، חיוך רחב
Arabicضحك باستهزاء، ابتسامة، ابتسامة عريضة
Persianلبخند زدن
Urduمسکراہٹ

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* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 46872, 46872

* Synonyms come partly from OpenThesaurus (openthesaurus.de) and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) license: grinsen

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 4126960, 7603297, 943503, 686236, 6619517, 7448756, 8650898, 2130055, 933610, 8650900

* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 9197, 188077, 959679

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