diff --git a/components/var_dumper.rst b/components/var_dumper.rst
index 8ab6f71ffef..89c7a00381a 100644
--- a/components/var_dumper.rst
+++ b/components/var_dumper.rst
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ This will provide you with two new assertions:
 
 :method:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Test\\VarDumperTestTrait::assertDumpEquals`
     verifies that the dump of the variable given as the second argument matches
-    the expected dump provided as a string in the first argument.
+    the expected dump provided as the first argument.
 
 :method:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Test\\VarDumperTestTrait::assertDumpMatchesFormat`
     is like the previous method but accepts placeholders in the expected dump,
@@ -152,10 +152,19 @@ Example::
     ]
     EOTXT;
 
+            // if the first argument is a string, it must be the whole expected dump
             $this->assertDumpEquals($expectedDump, $testedVar);
+
+            // if the first argument is not a string, assertDumpEquals() dumps it
+            // and compares it with the dump of the second argument
+            $this->assertDumpEquals($testedVar, $testedVar);
         }
     }
 
+.. versionadded:: 4.1
+    The possibility of passing non-string variables as the first argument of
+    ``assertDumpEquals()`` was introduced in Symfony 4.1.
+
 Dump Examples and Output
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