humer
French, verb/y.me/
humer is a French verb meaning “to smell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aspirer doucement un liquide ou un gaz”.
What does humer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smell
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aspirer doucement un liquide ou un gaz. 2. Respirer, sentir, flairer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of humer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- humant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- humé participle past
- hume first-person indicative present
- humes indicative present second-person
- humons first-person indicative plural
- humez indicative plural present
- hument indicative plural present
- humais first-person imperfect indicative
- humait imperfect indicative singular
- humions first-person imperfect indicative
- humiez imperfect indicative plural
- humaient imperfect indicative plural
- humai first-person historic indicative
- humas historic indicative past
- huma historic indicative past
- humâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce humer?
- /y.me/
- ^((h aspiré))\y.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to humer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is humer in French?
humer appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).