aspirer

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English

Etymology

From aspire +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

aspirer (plural aspirers)

  1. One who aspires to something.
    • 2007 October 4, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Calling All Alpha Kitties”, in New York Times‎:
      Yet as the Rapunzel-editor in her high tower, she said, she had begun to feel walled off from the legions of aspirers.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /as.pi.ʁe/
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Verb

aspirer

  1. (intransitive, followed by à) to aspire (to wait, to long)
  2. (transitive) to aspirate (to produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant)
  3. (transitive) to inhale, to breathe in
  4. (transitive) to extract, to suck up
    Il a aspiré la poussière.
    He vacuumed the dust up. / He vacuumed up the dust.

Conjugation

Conjugation of aspirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple aspirer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple aspirant
/as.pi.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle aspiré
/as.pi.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present aspire
/as.piʁ/ 		aspires
/as.piʁ/ 		aspire
/as.piʁ/ 		aspirons
/as.pi.ʁɔ̃/ 		aspirez
/as.pi.ʁe/ 		aspirent
/as.piʁ/
imperfect aspirais
/as.pi.ʁɛ/ 		aspirais
/as.pi.ʁɛ/ 		aspirait
/as.pi.ʁɛ/ 		aspirions
/as.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ 		aspiriez
/as.pi.ʁje/ 		aspiraient
/as.pi.ʁɛ/
past historic2 aspirai
/as.pi.ʁe/ 		aspiras
/as.pi.ʁa/ 		aspira
/as.pi.ʁa/ 		aspirâmes
/as.pi.ʁam/ 		aspirâtes
/as.pi.ʁat/ 		aspirèrent
/as.pi.ʁɛʁ/
future aspirerai
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁe/ 		aspireras
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁa/ 		aspirera
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁa/ 		aspirerons
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ 		aspirerez
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁe/ 		aspireront
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional aspirerais
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		aspirerais
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		aspirerait
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		aspirerions
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		aspireriez
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁje/ 		aspireraient
/as.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present aspire
/as.piʁ/ 		aspires
/as.piʁ/ 		aspire
/as.piʁ/ 		aspirions
/as.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ 		aspiriez
/as.pi.ʁje/ 		aspirent
/as.piʁ/
imperfect2 aspirasse
/as.pi.ʁas/ 		aspirasses
/as.pi.ʁas/ 		aspirât
/as.pi.ʁa/ 		aspirassions
/as.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ 		aspirassiez
/as.pi.ʁa.sje/ 		aspirassent
/as.pi.ʁas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — aspire
/as.piʁ/ 		— aspirons
/as.pi.ʁɔ̃/ 		aspirez
/as.pi.ʁe/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Verb

aspīrer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aspīrō
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