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Forms: servent, servir. - I want to **serve** my country. Je veux **servir** mon pays. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5193559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5193559) [\#5289118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5289118)) - “To **serve** as a lever.” --Pour **servir** de levier. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#42544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42544) [\#4909986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8657100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657100) [\#8657120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Whidou · checked, community translation · [\#2890112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890112) [\#4569585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4569585)) - In all likelihood, the president will **serve** a second term. En toute probabilité, le président exercera un second mandat. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#671673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/671673) [\#809375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809375)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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