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Meaning: [used in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/used/). - 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/serve/). - Je veux **servir** mon pays. I want to **serve** my country. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5193559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5193559) [\#5289118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5289118)) - --Pour **servir** de levier. “To **serve** as a lever.” ([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) - 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and ari\_diary · checked, community translation · [\#1636234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1636234) [\#9452456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9452456)) - Voici un couteau dont vous pouvez vous **servir**. Here's a knife you can use. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6817135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6817135) [\#6817315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fhartmann and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#53656](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53656) [\#426970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/426970)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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