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)
simple compound
infinitive desservir avoir desservi
gerund en desservant en ayant desservi
present participle desservant
/de.sɛʁ.vɑ̃/
past participle desservi
/de.sɛʁ.vi/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
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 historic1 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 Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present desserve
/de.sɛʁv/		 desserves
/de.sɛʁv/		 desserve
/de.sɛʁv/		 desservions
/de.sɛʁ.vjɔ̃/		 desserviez
/de.sɛʁ.vje/		 desservent
/de.sɛʁv/
imperfect1 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 Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— dessers
/de.sɛʁ/		 — desservons
/de.sɛʁ.vɔ̃/		 desservez
/de.sɛʁ.ve/		 —
1literary tenses

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

Further reading

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