Verb 'schmecken' (to taste good, + dative)

The verb schmecken means "to taste good (to someone)" and works like gefallen: the food is the subject and the person is in the dative. So Die Suppe schmeckt mir means "the soup tastes good to me" = "I like the soup".

The verb agrees with the food: es schmeckt (singular), sie schmecken (plural).

Examples:

• Die Suppe schmeckt mir gut. - The soup tastes good to me. (mir = dative)
• Schmeckt dir der Kuchen? - Do you like the cake?
• Die Nudeln schmecken den Kindern. - The children like the pasta. (plural subject → schmecken)

Common mistakes: Don't make the person the subject: it is Die Suppe schmeckt mir, not Ich schmecke die Suppe (which would mean you are tasting it deliberately). The person stays in the dative: mir, dir, ihm - never accusative. And the verb agrees with the food, not the person.

'schmecken' (to taste good) takes a dative object.

The food is the subject; the person is in the dative (mir, dir …).

'schmecken' steht mit dem Dativ.