aspirer

English

Etymology

aspire +‎ -er

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.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre, present active infinitive of aspīrō.

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 breath after pronouncing)
  3. (transitive) to inhale, to breathe in
  4. (transitive) to extract, to suck up
    Il a aspiré la poussière.
    He vacuumed the dust up.

Conjugation
Conjugation of aspirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle aspirant
/as.pi.ʁɑ̃/
past participle aspiré
/as.pi.ʁe/
infinitive
simple aspirer
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple aspirant
/as.pi.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle 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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Latin

Verb

aspīrer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aspīrō
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