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# served — English to French

How English *served* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: served (29 474). By style: everyday 89 · literary 29 · biblical 93 · parliamentary 961 · legal and administrative 2 095 · UN documents 26 207.

## servi

Used about 5 979 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 50 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 180 · legal and administrative ≈ 262 · UN documents ≈ 5 460).

- Have you been **served**?
  Est-ce qu'on t'a **servi** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6005865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6005865) [\#8758477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8758477))

- A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was **served**.
  Quelques instants après, Basque annonça que le dîner était **servi**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29792)

- You know that I have **served** your father with all of my strength.
  Vous savez vous-mêmes que j’ai **servi** votre père de tout mon pouvoir.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 31:6)

- It is a principle that has **served** us well.
  C'est un principe qui nous a bien **servi**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1229147)

- Order number under ‘first-come first-**served**’
  Numéro d’ordre selon le principe du «premier arrivé, premier **servi**»
  ([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 2472662)

## More sentences

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

- I remember tropical parties, which **served** giant prawns on rice.
  Je me rappelle des fêtes tropicales, où l'on servait des crevettes géantes sur du riz.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and Olcyx · checked, community translation · [\#10063810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10063810) [\#12682893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12682893))

- Justice will be **served**, whether here or in the hereafter.
  La justice prévaudra, que ce soit ici ou dans l'au-delà.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#744548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/744548) [\#800247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800247))

- Delicious refreshments were **served**.
  De délicieux rafraîchissements ont été servis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4502056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4502056) [\#6069354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6069354))

## 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/).

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