Masculine

humor

Sentences

Meaning

Het beste medicijn
💊

is humor werd gezegd door de man
👨

.

The best medicine is humor was said by the man.

Hij
👨

heeft niet
🚫

veel gevoel voor humor maar hij
👨

probeert toch vaak grappen te maken .

He doesn't have much of a sense of humor, but he often tries to make jokes anyway.

(masculine, no-diminutive, uncountable) humour (sense of amusement)
(archaic, countable, historical, masculine, no-diminutive) humour (bodily fluid)

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɦymɔr/

Borrowed from English

humor

In summary

Borrowed from English humor (US), from Old French humor (“bodily fluid”), from Latin hūmor. Doublet of humeur (“mood, mental state”). The meaning of humor as in "a sense of amusement" entered Dutch from the US spelling of humour around ~1839.