aspirierte

Aspirierte is a German verb form derived from aspirieren, a verb with multiple but distinct usages. In medical and technical contexts, aspirieren means to draw off a liquid or gas by suction, for example with a syringe or catheter to obtain a sample. In this sense, aspirierte is the simple past tense form used to describe a completed action in the past (for example, er aspirierte eine Gewebeprobe). The corresponding past participle is aspiriert, used in passive constructions such as Die Gewebeprobe wurde aspiriert.

A second, more historical or literary sense of aspirieren relates to the verb’s meaning “to aspire” or “to strive for.” In modern standard German, this sense is typically expressed with words like anstreben or sich bemühen rather than aspirieren. When aspirieren is used in this sense, aspirierte can appear as a simple past form (der Schriftsteller aspirierte nach Ruhm) but is relatively uncommon in contemporary everyday language.

Etymology and related terms: aspirieren is borrowed from French aspirer, which in turn traces to Latin aspirare, meaning to breathe in or to draw in. Related linguistic and medical terms include das Aspirat (the aspirate, i.e., the material obtained by aspiration) and aspirierte Lautbildung or aspirierte Konsonanten in phonetics, referring to sounds produced with a stronger release of air.

In summary, aspirierte is primarily encountered as the preterite form of aspirieren in German, most commonly in medical contexts describing suction or sampling. Its use to mean “to aspire” is rare in modern usage and largely literary.