Dutch–English dictionary

herberg

A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.

herbergen

(transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

herbergier

The person responsible for the running of an inn, usually the proprietor.

herbivoor

An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet.

herboren

Revived or regenerated, especially emotionally or spiritually.

herborist

A person who treats diseases by means of medicinal herbs.

herbruikbaar

Able to be used again; especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing

herbruiken

(transitive, figurative) To reuse as a whole.

herdenken

(transitive) To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.

herdenking

The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event.

herder

(now, rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.

herderin

(dated) A female shepherd.

herderinnetje

(dated) A female shepherd.

herderlijke brief

(religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.

herdersstaf

A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.

herdoen

To do again.

heremiet

One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.

heren

(chiefly, _, historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK, _, law) an armigerous man ranking below a knight.

herenen

(transitive) To resume something that has been convened and then paused.

herenhuis

A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).

herenigen

(transitive) To resume something that has been convened and then paused.

hereniging

The unification of something that was previously divided; used especially of a country.

heresiarch

(religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy. [from mid 16th c.]

herformuleren

(transitive) To formulate again or differently.

herfstbremspanner

A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.

herfstdraad

A fine film made up of cobwebs, seen floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.

herfstmaand

The ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, following August and preceding October, containing the southward equinox.

hergaderen

(intransitive) To come together again.

hergebruiken

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

hergroeperen

(transitive) To group or categorize again.

herhaaldelijk

Having been said or done again.

herhaalrecept

(medicine, pharmacy) A repeat of a prescription.

herhalen

(computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.

herhaling

A recital or a second performance; a repetition.

herhalingsteken

The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.

herinitialiseren

To set back to the initial state.

herinnerd

The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection.

herinnerde

Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.

herinneren

The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.

herinnering

An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.

herinneringsvermogen

The act or power of remembering things.

herkansing

(sports, countable) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.

herkauwen

(figuratively, idiomatic, of a person) To meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate.

herkenbaar

Capable of being distinguished and named.

herkennen

(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.

herkenning

The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

herkomst

Lineage or hereditary derivation.

herkrijgen

(transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.

herleiden

(transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.

herleven

To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.

hermafrodiet

Possessing qualities of both sexes.

hermafrodiete

(biology) Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.

Herman

A en given name.

Hermes

(Greek god) The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.

hermetisch

Impermeable to air or other gases.

herneming

(music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.

hernia

(diseases) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.

hernieuwbaar

Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.

hernieuwbare energiebron

A renewable resource or source of energy.

hernieuwen

(transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. [from 14thc.]

hernoemen

(transitive) To give a new name to.

heroïne

A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world. [from late 19th century]

heroïsch

Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.

heronderhandelen

(transitive) To negotiate new terms to replace old ones.

herontdekken

(transitive) To discover again; especially something previously lost or forgotten.

heropbouwen

(ambitransitive) To build again or anew.

heropleven

(transitive) To give new life, energy or strength to someone or something; to revitalize.

heropleving

Revival, reinvigoration.

heropstarten

(computing, ergative) To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, commonly after a system failure.

heroverwegen

(ambitransitive) To consider a matter again.

herrie

A fuss, uproar, commotion or stir; hype; brouhaha, hullabaloo.

herrijzen

(intransitive) To rise from the dead; to return to life.

herrijzenis

(Christianity) The resurrection of Jesus Christ.

herroepen

To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate. [from 15th c.]

herroeping

A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

herschikken

(transitive) To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items).

herschrijven

(transitive) To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.

hersenbreker

A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.

hersenen

(in the plural) Intellect.

hersenkind

(informal) A creation of one's brain; an original idea or innovation of a person or group of people, an organization, etc.

hersenontsteking

(pathology) Inflammation of the brain.

hersenpan

(skeleton) That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.

hersens

(in the plural) Intellect.

hersenschim

That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

hersenschudding

(transitive) To injure the brain of, usually temporarily, by violent impact.

hersenspoelen

(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)

hersenspoeling

A form of indoctrination that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning through various forms of pressure or torture.

hersenvliesontsteking

(pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.

herstarten

(computing, ergative) To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, commonly after a system failure.

herstel

Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.

herstelbetaling

(usually, in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).

herstellen

(transitive) To right, rectify, or ameliorate a relationship or situation.

herstellingsteken

(music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.

herstellingsvermogen

(psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

hert

(countable) A ruminant mammal with hooves and often antlers, of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla, such as the musk deer or mouse deer.

hertalen

(transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.

hertenbok

(countable) A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.

hertenjong

A young deer.

hertogdom

A dominion or region ruled by a duke or duchess.

hertogelijk

Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.

hertrouwen

To marry a second or subsequent time (the same spouse or a different one) after the end of a marriage.

heruitvinden

(transitive) To invent again something that has already been invented.

herval

(medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.

hervatten

(transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. [from 15th c.]

hervatting

The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession

hervestiging

The transportation of a group of people to a new settlement.

hervormd

Of the Protestant movement typically associated with John Calvin, as separated from the Lutheran Church to pursue more extensive reformation.

hervormer

One who reforms, or who works for reform.

hervorming

(historical) The religious movement initiated in the 16th century against the Roman Catholic Church.

hervormster

One who reforms, or who works for reform.

herwaarderen

To value again, give a new value to.

herwaarts

(literary, or, archaic) To this place, to here.

herzeggen

(transitive) To do or say again (and again).

herzien

(transitive) To improve or rectify.

herziening

A major repair, renovation, or revision.

hesp

(uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.

Hessen

A state of modern Germany.

Hestia

(Greek god) The virgin goddess of the hearth, and the household, and therefore of domestic life.

het

The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.

het ... ervan

The one (or ones) belonging to it. [from 17th c.]

het afstand doen van

(legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. [Early 19th century.]

het algemeen voorkomen

The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.

het doen

(intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.

het echte leven

Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.

het eens zijn met

(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.

het geluk is met de onwetenden

A lack of knowledge or awareness about certain facts or situations results in happiness or reduced anxiety.

het gezicht in de handen verbergen

To bring the palm of one’s hand to one’s face as an expression of mixed humor and disbelief, disgust or shame; for example, when one is caught off-guard with a particularly bad pun.

het hare

That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]

het heersen

The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.

het hof maken

(transitive) To attempt to attract; to invite by attractions; to allure.

het hoofd bieden

(transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

het hunne

That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.

het in de steek laten

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

het is wat het is

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see it,‎ is,‎ what,‎ it,‎ is. This thing has its own distinct nature; this thing is itself.

het jouwe

That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

het kwik

(with definite article) Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers). [from 17th c.]

het land hebben aan

(transitive) To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like. [from 16th c.]

het laten afweten

(slang) Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out.

het laten zitten van

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

het naakte achterwerk tonen

(transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.

het niet eens zijn

(intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.

het niet gewend zijn van

Not typical of one's character or personality.

het oneens zijn

(intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.

het onze

(colloquial, may seem patronising) That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.

het op een lopen zetten

(informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.

het opgaan in

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

het opgeven

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

het prijsgeven

(legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. [Early 19th century.]

het spijt me

Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.

het uitdelen van ambten aan partijgenoten

Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.