transpirer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspirāre, from Latin trāns + spiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/

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Verb

transpirer

1. to transpire
2. to perspire, sweat

Conjugation

Conjugation of transpirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transpirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transpirant /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transpiré /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/	transpires /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/	transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/	transpirons /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	transpirez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/	transpirent /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect	transpirais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	transpirais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	transpirait /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	transpirions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	transpiriez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁje/	transpiraient /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	transpirai /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/	transpiras /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa/	transpira /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa/	transpirâmes /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁam/	transpirâtes /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁat/	transpirèrent /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	transpirerai /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	transpireras /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	transpirera /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	transpirerons /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	transpirerez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	transpireront /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transpirerais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	transpirerais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	transpirerait /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	transpirerions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	transpireriez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁje/	transpireraient /tʁɑ̃s.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	transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/	transpires /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/	transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/	transpirions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	transpiriez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁje/	transpirent /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect2	transpirasse /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁas/	transpirasses /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁas/	transpirât /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa/	transpirassions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	transpirassiez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa.sje/	transpirassent /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/	—	transpirons /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	transpirez /tʁɑ̃s.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Synonyms

• (emphatic, figurative) suer

Derived terms

• transpirer à grosses gouttes

Related terms

• transpiration

Further reading

• “transpirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.