aspirateur

aspirer +‎ -ateur

• IPA^(key): /as.pi.ʁa.tœʁ/

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aspirateur m (plural aspirateurs)

1. vacuum cleaner
2. aspirator

• The verb generally used to refer to the operation of a vacuum cleaner is passer. To indicate what was being cleaned with a vacuum, a prepositional phrase is used, often with sur or dans.

J'ai passé l'aspirateur dans le salon.

I vacuumed the living room.

• “aspirateur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• pâturerais