aspirer
English
Etymology
aspire + -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Noun
aspirer (plural aspirers)
- 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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Synonyms
- wannabe
Anagrams
- Rapiers, pairers, parries, praiser, rapiers, raspier, repairs
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aspīrāre, present active infinitive of aspīrō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.pi.ʁe/
aspirer (file)
Verb
aspirer
- (intransitive, followed by à) to aspire (to wait, to long)
- (transitive) to aspirate (to produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant)
- (transitive) to inhale, to breathe in
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- aspirant
- aspirateur
- aspiration
- aspirationnel
- expiration
- expirer
- inspiration
- inspirationnel
- inspirer
- respiration
- respirer
See also
- muet
Further reading
- “aspirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- périras, praires, prieras, reprisa, respira, riperas
Latin
Verb
aspīrer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aspīrō