aspirer

English

Etymology

aspire +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)

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.

Synonyms

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /as.pi.ʁe/
  • aspirer(file)

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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

aspīrer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aspīrō
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.