Grammatical class

Verb

aspirer

(intransitive, followed by à) to aspire (to wait, to long)

Details

Syllables

as-pi-rer

Phonetics

as.pi.ʁe

Grammatical class

Verb

Freq. (books)

10792

Freq. (movies)

10442

Freq. (news)

25623

Sentences

Il a aspiré la poussière.

He vacuumed the dust up. / He vacuumed up the dust.

A1

Est-ce considéré comme impoli d'aspirer des nouilles bruyamment ?

Is it considered rude to slurp noodles?

B2

C'est un monde binaire; l'ordinateur pourrait être son paradigme. Et beaucoup d'ingénieurs semblent aspirer à être des personnes binaire à l'intérieur.

It's a binary world; the computer might be his paradigm. And many engineers seem to aspire to be binary people within in.

B2