servir — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: servir (48 900). By style: everyday 116 · literary 12 · biblical 85 · parliamentary 3 764 · legal and administrative 3 528 · UN documents 41 395.

used

Used about 13 451 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 549 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 691 · UN documents ≈ 11 211). Meaning: used in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ces fonds doivent servir à aider ces travailleurs à trouver un nouvel emploi aussi vite que possible.

  These funds are to be used to assist these workers in finding new jobs as quickly as possible.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1453286

• Ce crédit peut, en particulier, servir à financer:

  This appropriation may, in particular, be used to cover:

  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 4125489

• Ces zones devraient uniquement servir de prairies à culture extensive.

  These areas should be used only as extensively managed grassland.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 6545368

• Nous ne partageons donc pas la vue selon laquelle la MOC ne doit servir que dans les cas exceptionnels.

  We do not therefore share the view that the open method of coordination must be used only in exceptional cases.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 956402

• les articles usagés ne pouvant servir qu’à la récupération des matières premières;

  used articles fit only for the recovery of raw materials;

  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 374313

serve

Used about 12 444 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 34 · parliamentary ≈ 1 019 · legal and administrative ≈ 147 · UN documents ≈ 11 211). Meaning: serve in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je veux servir mon pays.

  I want to serve my country.

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

• --Pour servir de levier.

  “To serve as a lever.”

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

• Le peuple répondit, et dit: Loin de nous la pensée d’abandonner l’Éternel, et de servir d’autres dieux!

  The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 24:16

• L'histoire des sciences présente quelques exemples semblables qui devraient nous servir de mise en garde.

  There are examples of these in the history of science which should serve as a warning.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1083156

• L'objectif de ce scénario de référence est de servir de base pour l'évaluation des scénarios alternatifs.

  The purpose of the baseline is to serve as a reference point, to which the alternative scenarios are evaluated.

  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 2557805

More sentences

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

• Non, je me suis juste dit que puisque vous savez vous servir d'un boulier, vous seriez peut-être doué pour faire des calculs mentalement.

  No, I just thought that since you can use an abacus, you might be good at doing calculations in your head.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and ari_diary · checked, community translation · #1636234 #9452456

• Voici un couteau dont vous pouvez vous servir.

  Here's a knife you can use.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · #6817135 #6817315

• Mais ça ne l'empêcha pas de se servir de son cerveau et de présenter ses idées à des congrès de physique dans le monde entier.

  But this did not stop him from using his mind and presenting his ideas at physics meetings around the world.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fhartmann and papabear · checked, community translation · #53656 #426970

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