aspirer
English
Etymology
Noun
aspirer (plural aspirers)
- One who aspires to something.
- 2007 October 4, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Calling All Alpha Kitties”, 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.
- 2007 October 4, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Calling All Alpha Kitties”, New York Times:
Synonyms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin aspiro.
Pronunciation
Verb
aspirer
- (intransitive, followed by à) to aspire (to wait, to long)
- (transitive) to aspirate (to produce breath after pronouncing)
- (transitive) to inhale, to breathe in
- (transitive) to extract, to suck up
Derived terms
Conjugation
Conjugation of aspirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | aspirer | avoir or être aspiré | |||||
| gerund | en aspirant | en ayant aspiré or en étant aspiré | |||||
| present participle | aspirant | ||||||
| past participle | aspiré | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | aspire | aspires | aspire | aspirons | aspirez | aspirent |
| imperfect | aspirais | aspirais | aspirait | aspirions | aspiriez | aspiraient | |
| past historic1 | aspirai | aspiras | aspira | aspirâmes | aspirâtes | aspirèrent | |
| future | aspirerai | aspireras | aspirera | aspirerons | aspirerez | aspireront | |
| conditional | aspirerais | aspirerais | aspirerait | aspirerions | aspireriez | aspireraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | aspire | aspires | aspire | aspirions | aspiriez | aspirent |
| imperfect1 | aspirasse | aspirasses | aspirât | aspirassions | aspirassiez | aspirassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | aspire | — | aspirons | aspirez | — | ||
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