aspirar
Portuguese, verb/as.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
aspirar is spelled A-S-P-I-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aspirar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to vacuum (to clean with a vacuum cleaner)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atrair (o ar exterior) aos pulmões”.
What does aspirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vacuum (to clean with a vacuum cleaner)
- 2
to inhale, to breathe in (to draw air into the lungs)
- 3
to aspire (to dream of becoming something)
- 4
to aspirate (to produce a puff of breath with a consonant)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. atrair (o ar exterior) aos pulmões 2. sorver 3. desejar, almejar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aspirar
- aspiro first-person present singular
- aspirei first-person preterite singular
- aspirado participle past
- aspirares infinitive second-person singular
- aspirarmos first-person infinitive plural
- aspirardes infinitive plural second-person
- aspirarem infinitive plural third-person
- aspirando gerund
- aspirados masculine participle past
- aspirada feminine participle past
- aspiradas feminine participle past
- aspiras indicative present second-person
- aspira indicative present singular
- aspiramos first-person indicative plural
- aspirais indicative plural present
- aspiram indicative plural present
- aspirava first-person imperfect indicative
- aspiravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aspirar?
- Brazil /as.piˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [as.piˈɾa(h)]
- /as.piˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aspirar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aspirar in Portuguese?
aspirar appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).