aspirateur
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
aspirateur m (plural aspirateurs)
Usage notes
- 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.
Further reading
- “aspirateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.