serve — English to French

How English serve is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: serve in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: serve (64 191), serves (13 925). By style: everyday 129 · literary 9 · biblical 202 · parliamentary 4 589 · legal and administrative 3 530 · UN documents 69 657.

servir

Used about 10 337 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 1 099 · legal and administrative ≈ 478 · UN documents ≈ 8 707). Forms: servent, servir.

• I want to serve my country.

  Je veux servir mon pays.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5193559 #5289118

• “To serve as a lever.”

  --Pour servir de levier.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11411

• Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

  Ils sont confus, tous ceux qui servent les images, Qui se font gloire des idoles. Tous les dieux se prosternent devant lui.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 97:7

• It must serve as an example.

  Ça doit servir d'exemple!

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1337296

• The results of the exercise are intended to serve:

  Les résultats de l’exercice servent à:

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2390950

sert

Used about 6 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 908 · legal and administrative ≈ 699 · UN documents ≈ 5 079).

• It serves our purpose.

  Ça sert notre objectif.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #42544 #4909986

• I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose.

  Je veux du superflu, de l'inutile, de l'extravagant, du trop, de ce qui ne sert à rien.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29255

• Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

  Et vous verrez de nouveau la différence Entre le juste et le méchant, Entre celui qui sert Dieu Et celui qui ne le sert pas.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAL 3:18

• It serves to maintain the current situation.

  Il sert à maintenir la situation actuelle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1556221

• Funding for the preparatory action serves to:

  Le financement de l’action préparatoire sert:

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3443640

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• In the interim, I will serve as chairman.

  Entre-temps, je remplirai les fonctions de président.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8657100 #8657120

• I guess this desk will serve the purpose until we can get a new one.

  Je suppose que ce bureau fera l'affaire jusqu'à ce que l'on puisse en obtenir un nouveau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Whidou · checked, community translation · #2890112 #4569585

• In all likelihood, the president will serve a second term.

  En toute probabilité, le président exercera un second mandat.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #671673 #809375

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