servir

Inherited from Navarro-Aragonese servir, from Latin servīre.

• IPA^(key): /seɾˈbi(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)
• Syllabification: ser‧vir

servir

1. to serve
2. to be useful, to be good for

• fer servir

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

From Latin servīre.

servir

1. to serve

• siervu

Inherited from Old Catalan servir, from Latin servīre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sərˈbi]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sərˈvi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seɾˈviɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)
• Homophone: serví

servir (first-person singular present serveixo, first-person singular preterite serví, past participle servit)

1. to serve
2. to be useful, to be good for
   • 2019 September 18, Lluís Foix, “Negativisme desacomplexat”, in La Vanguardia‎^[1]:

     La veracitat que s’atorga a les enquestes d’opinió pot persuadir molta gent que la política i els polítics ja no serveixen per canviar les coses.

     The veracity granted to opinion polls can persuade many people that politics and politicians are no good anymore for changing things.

• fer servir

• “servir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “servir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “servir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “servir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French servir, from Old French servir, from Latin servīre.

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.viʁ/

• audio; “se servir de”:

  (file)

servir

1. to serve (to help in a shop; to bring a meal to someone)

   Je suis allée en France avec ma mère l’année dernière et le serveur nous a servi des escargots!

   I went to France last year with my mother and the waiter served us escargots!

   On vous a servie, madame?

   Have you been helped, madam?

2. to be used for
3. (intransitive) to be useful, to be of use, come in handy [with à ‘to/for someone’]
4. (sports) to serve (start a point with service)
5. (sports) to set up (pass to, in order to give a scoring chance)
6. (reflexive) to help oneself, to serve oneself
7. (reflexive) to use, make use [with de ‘of something’]

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) sers and (il) sert in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *servis and *servit (as in the past historic).

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) sers and (il) sert in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *servis and *servit (as in the past historic).

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) sers and (il) sert in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *servis and *servit (as in the past historic).

• → German: servieren
  • Norwegian Bokmål: servere
• Haitian Creole: sèvi

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese servir, from Latin servīre.

• IPA^(key): [seɾˈβiɾ], [sɪɾˈβiɾ]

servir (first-person singular present sirvo, third-person singular present serve, first-person singular preterite servín, past participle servido)

1. (intransitive) to serve
2. (intransitive) to be useful or fitting

   Synonym: valer

3. (transitive) to serve

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “servir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “servir”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “servir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “servir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “servir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /serˈvir/

servir

1. to serve

servir (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of servire

From Old French servir, from Latin servīre.

servir

1. to serve (act as a servant or a vassal)

• → English: serve
• French: servir
  • German: servieren
    • Norwegian Bokmål: servere

From Old Occitan servir, from Latin servīre.

• IPA^(key): /səɾˈβi/

• Audio:

  (file)

servir

1. to serve
2. to be useful

• servidor

From Latin servīre.

servir

1. to serve (act as a servant or a vassal)

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: servir
  • → English: serve
  • French: servir
    • German: servieren
      • Norwegian Bokmål: servere
• Walloon: siervi

Inherited from Latin servīre.

servir

1. (transitive) to serve (to be a servant for)
2. (transitive) to serve (to obey and worship)
3. (transitive) to court (to try to win a commitment to marry from)
4. (reflexive) to make use [with de ‘of something’]

   Synonym: usar

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Fala: servil
• Galician: servir
• Portuguese: servir
  • → Hunsrik: sërviere

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “servir”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “servir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “servi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

From Latin servīre.

servir

1. to serve (act as a servant or a vassal)

• Occitan: servir

From Old Galician-Portuguese servir, from Latin servīre.

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

  (file)

• Audio (Portugal):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ser‧vir

servir (first-person singular present sirvo, third-person singular present serve, first-person singular preterite servi, past participle servido)

1. (transitive) to serve (to work as a servant for someone)
2. (religion, transitive) to serve (to worship a god)
3. (transitive) to serve (to give out or place down food or drink)
4. (intransitive) to serve (to be part of an armed force) [with em ‘in an organization, especially a military one’]

   Servi dois anos na Legião Estrangeira. ― I served for two years in the Foreign Legion.

5. (intransitive) to suffice; to do (to be good enough for a task)

   Esse martelo é ruim mas serve. ― This hammer is bad but it will do.

6. (intransitive) to be for (to have as its purpose or utility) [with para (+ subject pronoun (optional) with personal infinitive) ‘for someone to do something’]

   Martelos servem para as pessoas baterem pregos. ― Hammers are for people to hit nails with.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:servir.

• → Hunsrik: sërviere

Inherited from Latin servīre.

• IPA^(key): /seɾˈbiɾ/ [seɾˈβ̞iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ser‧vir

servir (first-person singular present sirvo, first-person singular preterite serví, past participle servido)

1. (intransitive, transitive) to serve (to be a servant or worker; to render service)

   Es una empresa que sirve a los discapacitados.

   It's a business that serves the disabled.

2. (intransitive, transitive) to serve (to be a servant for; to work for)
3. (intransitive) to be of use, to be good for

   Hace diez años, la traducción automática no servía.

   Ten years ago, automated translation was no good.

   Este cuchillo sirve para cortar el pan.

   This knife is good for cutting bread.

4. (intransitive) to serve (to usefully take the place of something else)

   sirve como recordatorio ― serves as a reminder

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 42:

     El Chonchón es un animal mítico que tiene la figura de una cabeza humana; las orejas, que son extremadamente grandes, le sirven de alas para volar en las noches obscuras.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (intransitive) to serve (to be in military service)
6. (intransitive, transitive) to serve (to set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten)

   El camarero nos sirvió la comida de otra mesa.

   The waiter served us another table's food.

7. (intransitive, sports) to serve (to lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton, etc.)

   Synonym: sacar

8. (reflexive) to help oneself to (to take freely) [with de ‘something’]

• “servir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From Latin servīre. Compare Italian servire.

servir

1. (transitive, intransitive) to serve

• Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.