respirer

respirer (plural respirers)

1. An organism that respires.

• Perriers, perriers

Inherited from Middle French respirer, from Old French respirer, borrowed from Latin respīrāre.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.pi.ʁe/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: respirai, respiré, respirée, respirées, respirés, respirez

respirer

1. to breathe
   • 2003, Mickey 3D, Respire:

     Il faut que tu respires
     Et ça c’est rien de le dire
     Tu vas pas mourir de rire
     Et c’est pas rien de le dire

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Etymology and history of “respirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• “respirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• repriser

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /resˈpiː.rer/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /resˈpi.rer/,

respīrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of respīrō

From Old French respirer.

respirer

1. to breathe

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: respirer

Borrowed from Latin respīrāre.

respirer

1. to respire; to breathe
2. (figuratively) to come back to life
3. (transitive) to revive (someone)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (respirer, supplement)

• respirar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

From Latin respīrō, respīrāre.

respirer

1. (Puter) to breathe

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) fladar
• (Rumantsch Grischun) trair flad, trair il flad
• (Sursilvan) trer flad
• (Sutsilvan) trer flo
• (Surmiran) trer igl flo
• (Puter) trer fled, trer il fled
• (Vallader) trar il flà

From Old French respirer, a borrowing from Latin respīrō, respīrāre.

• IPA^(key): /ʀɛspiʀe/

respirer

1. to breathe

   —         —   Conjugation of the verb respirer in Walloon   —   Codjowaedje do viebe respirer e walon

infinitive	simple	respirer
	compound	aveur + past participle
gerund1	simple	respirant
	compound	åyant + past participle
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		respiré		respirêye
		plural		respirés		respirêyes
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		dji (dj')	ti (t')	i (il) / ele	dji (dj') / nos2	vos	i (il)
(simple tenses)	present	respire	respires	respire	respirans	respirez	respirèt or respirnut3
	imperfect	respiréve	respiréves	respiréve	respiréns	respirîz	respirént
	preterite	respira	respiras	respira	respirîs	respirîz	respirît
	future	respirrè	respirrès	respirrè	respirrans	respirroz	respirront
	conditional	respirreu	respirreus	respirreut	respirréns	respirrîz	respirrént
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of aveur + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of aveur + past participle
	past anterior	preterite indicative of aveur + past participle
	future perfect	future of aveur + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of aveur + past participle
subjunctive		ki dj'	ki t'	k' i (il) / k' ele	ki dj' / ki nos2	ki vos	k' i (il)
(simple tenses)	present	respire	respires	respire	respiranxhe	respiroxhe	respirèxhe or respirnuxhe3
	imperfect	respiraxhe	respiraxhes	respiraxhe	respirénxhe	respirîxhe	respirénxhe
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of aveur + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of aveur + past participle
imperative		–	ti	–	dji / nos	vos	–
simple		—	respire!	—	respirans!	respirez!	—
compound		—	simple imperative of aveur + past participle	—	simple imperative of aveur + past participle	simple imperative of aveur + past participle	—
1 The Walloon gerund is usable only with the preposition tot (Eastern, Southern) or e (Central, Western).
2 The second person plural dji is used in Central and Southern dialects
3 The form -èt/-exhe is used in Eastern and Southern dialects, the form -nut/-nuxhe is used in Central and Western dialects.