transpirer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānspirāre, from Latin trāns + spiro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/
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Verb
transpirer
Conjugation
Conjugation of transpirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | transpirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | transpirant /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | transpiré /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
transpires /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
transpirons /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/ |
transpirez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/ |
transpirent /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
| imperfect | transpirais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/ |
transpirais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/ |
transpirait /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/ |
transpirions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transpiriez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁje/ |
transpiraient /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | transpirai /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁe/ |
transpiras /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa/ |
transpira /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa/ |
transpirâmes /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁam/ |
transpirâtes /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁat/ |
transpirèrent /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | transpirerai /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
transpireras /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
transpirera /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
transpirerons /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
transpirerez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
transpireront /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | transpirerais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
transpirerais /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
transpirerait /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
transpirerions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transpireriez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁje/ |
transpireraient /tʁɑ̃s.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 | transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
transpires /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
transpirions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transpiriez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁje/ |
transpirent /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | transpirasse /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁas/ |
transpirasses /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁas/ |
transpirât /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa/ |
transpirassions /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
transpirassiez /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁa.sje/ |
transpirassent /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | transpire /tʁɑ̃s.piʁ/ |
— | transpirons /tʁɑ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/ |
transpirez /tʁɑ̃s.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). | |||||||
Synonyms
- (emphatic, figurative) suer
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “transpirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.