Geschmack

German

Geschmack m (strong, genitive Geschmacks or Geschmackes, plural Geschmäcker or (now rare) Geschmäcke)

taste
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 19:
  Die eigenen Zimmer hatten sich die Enkel nach persönlichem Geschmack eingerichtet.
  The grandchildren had furnished their own rooms according to their personal taste.
flavour
(Switzerland) smell, odor

Declension of Geschmack [masculine, strong]

¹Now rare, see notes.
²Now rare.

Some dictionaries still label the plural Geschmäcker as colloquial. In practice, however, this form has been predominant in all registers since the 1980s, while the older form Geschmäcke has become quite rare.^[1]