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desservir
desservir
French
Verb
desservir
- (transitive) to clear, clear away (e.g. a table)
- (religion, transitive) to serve (be the pastor of a church)
- (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.
- Ce train dessert les grandes villes de la région.
- to do a disservice, to perform ill offices to someone
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 | ||||||
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| infinitive | desservir | avoir desservi | |||||
| gerund | en desservant | en ayant desservi | |||||
| present participle | desservant /dɛ.sɛʁ.vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | desservi /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dessers /dɛ.sɛʁ/ |
dessers /dɛ.sɛʁ/ |
dessert /dɛ.sɛʁ/ |
desservons /dɛ.sɛʁ.vɔ̃/ |
desservez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ve/ |
desservent /dɛ.sɛʁv/ |
| imperfect | desservais /dɛ.sɛʁ.vɛ/ |
desservais /dɛ.sɛʁ.vɛ/ |
desservait /dɛ.sɛʁ.vɛ/ |
desservions /dɛ.sɛʁ.vjɔ̃/ |
desserviez /dɛ.sɛʁ.vje/ |
desservaient /dɛ.sɛʁ.vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | desservis /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi/ |
desservis /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi/ |
desservit /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi/ |
desservîmes /dɛ.sɛʁ.vim/ |
desservîtes /dɛ.sɛʁ.vit/ |
desservirent /dɛ.sɛʁ.viʁ/ |
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| future | desservirai /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/ |
desserviras /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/ |
desservira /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁa/ |
desservirons /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
desservirez /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁe/ |
desserviront /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | desservirais /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ |
desservirais /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ |
desservirait /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ |
desservirions /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
desserviriez /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁje/ |
desserviraient /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.ʁɛ/ |
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| 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 /dɛ.sɛʁv/ |
desserves /dɛ.sɛʁv/ |
desserve /dɛ.sɛʁv/ |
desservions /dɛ.sɛʁ.vjɔ̃/ |
desserviez /dɛ.sɛʁ.vje/ |
desservent /dɛ.sɛʁv/ |
| imperfect1 |
desservisse /dɛ.sɛʁ.vis/ |
desservisses /dɛ.sɛʁ.vis/ |
desservît /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi/ |
desservissions /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.sjɔ̃/ |
desservissiez /dɛ.sɛʁ.vi.sje/ |
desservissent /dɛ.sɛʁ.vis/ |
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| 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 /dɛ.sɛʁ/ |
— | desservons /dɛ.sɛʁ.vɔ̃/ |
desservez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ve/ |
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