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^[1]:

     Yet as the Rapunzel-editor in her high tower, she said, she had begun to feel walled off from the legions of aspirers.

Synonyms

• wannabe

Anagrams

• Rapiers, pairers, parries, praiser, rapiers, raspier, repairs

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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)

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).

Derived terms

• aspirateur

Related terms

• aspiration

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) aspīrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aspīrō