asservir
French, verb/a.sɛʁ.viʁ/
asservir is spelled A-S-S-E-R-V-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Asservir is a French verb meaning “to enslave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réduire, un être, un peuple ou une nation à la servitude”.
What does asservir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enslave
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réduire, un être, un peuple ou une nation à la servitude. 2. Mettre dans une extrême dépendance. 3. Soumettre autrui à sa volonté. 4. Réguler ; contrôler.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of asservir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- asservissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- asservi participle past
- asservis first-person indicative present
- asservit indicative present singular
- asservissons first-person indicative plural
- asservissez indicative plural present
- asservissent indicative plural present
- asservissais first-person imperfect indicative
- asservissait imperfect indicative singular
- asservissions first-person imperfect indicative
- asservissiez imperfect indicative plural
- asservissaient imperfect indicative plural
- asservîmes first-person historic indicative
- asservîtes historic indicative past
- asservirent historic indicative past
- asservirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce asservir?
- /a.sɛʁ.viʁ/
- \a.sɛʁ.viʁ\
- [a.sɛʁ.viʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to asservir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is asservir in French?
asservir appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).