aspirateur

From aspirer +‎ -ateur.

• IPA^(key): /as.pi.ʁa.tœʁ/

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aspirateur m (plural aspirateurs)

1. vacuum cleaner
2. aspirator

• 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.

• passer l’aspirateur

• “aspirateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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