desservir

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /de.sɛʁ.viʁ/

Etymology 1

From Old French deservir, from Latin dēservīre, present active infinitive of dēserviō.

Verb

desservir

  1. (religion, transitive) to serve (be the pastor of a church)
  2. (transitive, transport) to serve (of a train or bus, to stop at a particular town)
    Ce train dessert les grandes villes de la région.
    This train serves the big towns in the region.

Conjugation

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) dessers and (il) dessert in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *desservis and *desservit (as in the past historic).

Conjugation of desservir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle desservant
/de.sɛʁ.vɑ̃/
past participle desservi
/de.sɛʁ.vi/
infinitive
simple desservir
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple desservant
/de.sɛʁ.vɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present dessers
/de.sɛʁ/		 dessers
/de.sɛʁ/		 dessert
/de.sɛʁ/		 desservons
/de.sɛʁ.vɔ̃/		 desservez
/de.sɛʁ.ve/		 desservent
/de.sɛʁv/
imperfect desservais
/de.sɛʁ.vɛ/		 desservais
/de.sɛʁ.vɛ/		 desservait
/de.sɛʁ.vɛ/		 desservions
/de.sɛʁ.vjɔ̃/		 desserviez
/de.sɛʁ.vje/		 desservaient
/de.sɛʁ.vɛ/
past historic2 desservis
/de.sɛʁ.vi/		 desservis
/de.sɛʁ.vi/		 desservit
/de.sɛʁ.vi/		 desservîmes
/de.sɛʁ.vim/		 desservîtes
/de.sɛʁ.vit/		 desservirent
/de.sɛʁ.viʁ/
future desservirai
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/		 desserviras
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/		 desservira
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/		 desservirons
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/		 desservirez
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/		 desserviront
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/
conditional desservirais
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/		 desservirais
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/		 desservirait
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/		 desservirions
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁjɔ̃/		 desserviriez
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁje/		 desserviraient
/de.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present desserve
/de.sɛʁv/		 desserves
/de.sɛʁv/		 desserve
/de.sɛʁv/		 desservions
/de.sɛʁ.vjɔ̃/		 desserviez
/de.sɛʁ.vje/		 desservent
/de.sɛʁv/
imperfect2 desservisse
/de.sɛʁ.vis/		 desservisses
/de.sɛʁ.vis/		 desservît
/de.sɛʁ.vi/		 desservissions
/de.sɛʁ.vi.sjɔ̃/		 desservissiez
/de.sɛʁ.vi.sje/		 desservissent
/de.sɛʁ.vis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — dessers
/de.sɛʁ/		 — desservons
/de.sɛʁ.vɔ̃/		 desservez
/de.sɛʁ.ve/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Etymology 2

From Old French desservir, from dé- +‎ servir; cf. etymology 1.

Verb

desservir

  1. (transitive) to clear, clear away (e.g. a table)

Etymology 3

From servir, with the prefix dé- (from Latin dis-).

Verb

desservir

  1. to do a disservice, to perform ill offices to someone

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