Meaning of каштаваць | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to cost, to be worth
   intransitive
2. to taste, to sample
   transitive
3. to feel, to experience
   figuratively, transitive

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Examples

“до́рага каштава́ць”

to cost a lot

“Ко́лькі кашту́е?”

How much does it cost?

“Toż skażu ja wam szczyruju praûdu, szto jak pan wyhanić u browary wiadro wodki, to jana jamu kasztuje 10 złotych jakich, u błahi hod — 12 złotych; heta znaczycsa i za muku i za drowy i za rabotu i winniku: usim zapłacić.”

I'll also tell you the sincere truth, that when the master brews a bucket of vodka in a brewery, it costs him merely 10 zlotys, in a bad year — 12 zlotys; namely for the flour and for the firewood and for the labor and the distiller's wages: to pay to everyone.

“каштава́ць я́блык”

to taste an apple

“каштава́ць стра́ву”

to taste a dish

“This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.”

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