French Dictionary

French-English translation of servir

1 servir Verb, transitive Pronounce

(a) to serve a purpose, guest, country, meal; to serve, attend to a customer; to deal cards

Present: je sers, tu sers, il/elle sert, nous servons, vous servez, ils/elles servent
Imperfect: je servais, tu servais, il/elle servait, nous servions, vous serviez, ils/elles servaient
Future: je servirai, tu serviras, il/elle servira, nous servirons, vous servirez, ils/elles serviront
Perfect: j' ai servi, tu as servi, il/elle a servi, nous avons servi, vous avez servi, ils/elles ont servi
Present subjunctive: je serve, tu serves, il/elle serve, nous servions, vous serviez, ils/elles servent

2 servir Verb, intransitive

(a) to be useful, be of use, be a help (à, to); ~ à faire to be used for doing; cela ne sert à rien de faire there's no point in doing

(b) ~ de to act as something else

3 se servir Verb, pronominal

(a) (at a meal) to help oneself; se ~ de qch chez qn to buy sth from sb

(b) se ~ de to use a word, tool, dictionary, make use of somebody

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French-English translation of servir