Servir conjugation: to serve in every French tense (free PDF download)
Learn servir, “to serve”, and you add a very practical verb to your French: it is a high-frequency French verb (number 57 of the 150 on this site). It is an irregular verb of the 3rd group with its own stems: je sers, nous servons, and a future stem in servir- (je servirai). In compound tenses it takes avoir (j’ai servi), with the past participle servi. Below you will find every tense, example sentences and a free printable PDF.
Transitive (direct object), transitive (object with a preposition)
Frequency
No. 57 of the 150 most common French verbs
The endings are in bold. Tense names are given in French with the English equivalent in parentheses; pronouns and verb forms stay in French, as you will see and hear them.
In compound tenses servir takes avoir (j’ai servi). The participle servi agrees only with a direct object placed before the verb.
Irregular stems
Learn the stems, not the endings: the present is je sers / nous servons / ils servent, and the future and conditional use servir- (je servirai, je servirais).