aspirer
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Noun edit
aspirer (plural aspirers)
- One who aspires to something.
- 2007 October 4, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Calling All Alpha Kitties”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aspirer
- (intransitive, followed by à) to aspire (to wait, to long)
- (transitive) to aspirate (to produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant)
- (transitive) to inhale, to breathe in
- (transitive) to extract, to suck up
- Il a aspiré la poussière.
- He vacuumed the dust up. / He vacuumed up the dust.
Conjugation edit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Further reading edit
- “aspirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Latin edit
Verb edit
aspīrer