servir
French, verb/sɛʁ.viʁ/
servir is a French verb meaning “to serve (to help in a shop; to bring a meal to someone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’acquitter de certains offices, de certaines obligations envers une personne ou une collectivité”.
What does servir mean in English?
verb
- 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!
- 2
to be used for
- 3
to be useful, to be of use, come in handy
- 4
to serve (start a point with service)
- 5
to set up (pass to, in order to give a scoring chance)
- 6
to help oneself, to serve oneself
- 7
to use, make use
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’acquitter de certains offices, de certaines obligations envers une personne ou une collectivité. 2. S’acquitter de certaines fonctions auprès de quelqu’un comme domestique. 3. Présenter les plats, verser à boire, donner et retirer les assiettes, etc. 4. Donner à quelqu’un sa part des mets dont se compose un repas.
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 servir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- servant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- servi participle past
- sers first-person indicative present
- sert indicative present singular
- servons first-person indicative plural
- servez indicative plural present
- servent indicative plural present
- servais first-person imperfect indicative
- servait imperfect indicative singular
- servions first-person imperfect indicative
- serviez imperfect indicative plural
- servaient imperfect indicative plural
- servis first-person historic indicative
- servit historic indicative past
- servîmes first-person historic indicative
- servîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce servir?
- /sɛʁ.viʁ/
- \sɛʁ.viʁ\
- [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 servir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is servir in French?
servir appears 62 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).