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Spanish verb

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See, learn and practice how to conjugate servir (serve) in Spanish. Below you’ll find the full conjugation tables in every tense, an interactive trainer to quiz yourself, and real example sentences showing how servir is used in context.

Gerund (-ing)

sirviendo

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Present · yo

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Indicative

Subjunctive

Imperative

Affirmative Practice
yo
sirveirreg.
él/ellasirvairreg.
nosotrossirvamosirreg.
vosotrosservid
ellos/ellassirvanirreg.
Negative
yo
no sirvasirreg.
él/ellano sirvairreg.
nosotrosno sirvamosirreg.
vosotrosno sirváisirreg.
ellos/ellasno sirvanirreg.

Compound tenses

Continuous tenses

Related verbs

servir in real sentences

See how servir is actually used — pulled from real Spanish articles and videos. Click any example to open it where it appears.

Intimidad vs. extimidad: mira a los demás, deja que te miren

Coleccionar minutos de cámara que sirvan como entrevista de trabajo y salir del show con el contrato firmado.

Collecting camera minutes that serve as a job interview and leaving the show with the signed contract.

Cadáveres de botica

La medicina galénica seguía pensando el organismo en términos de humores, calores, equilibrios y correspondencias, y esa visión del mundo permitía que una parte del cuerpo actuara sobre otra, que el cráneo tuviera relación con los males de la cabeza, que la sangre conservase una fuerza aprovechable, que la grasa sirviera para ungüentos.

Galenic medicine continued to think of the organism in terms of humors, heats, balances and correspondences, and that vision of the world allowed one part of the body to act upon another, that the skull had relation to ailments of the head, that blood retained an exploitable force, that fat served for ointments.

Cadáveres de botica

La grasa humana servía para friegas y ungüentos, especialmente en dolores o heridas.

Human fat was used for rubs and ointments, especially for pain or wounds.

Cadáveres de botica

Pocas cosas han servido tanto para lavar una escena como una palabra técnica pronunciada por alguien con autoridad.

Few things have served as much to wash over a scene as a technical word pronounced by someone with authority.

El plástico del futuro que desaparece sin dejar residuos

¿Sirve reciclar el plástico?

Is recycling plastic useful?

El Starship V3 de SpaceX supera una prueba crucial de sus motores y se prepara para su primer vuelo

Qué podemos esperar del próximo vuelo de StarshipComo ya te hemos informado desde 20bits, el próximo vuelo del Starship V3 servirá para comprobar varios puntos importantes.

What can we expect from the next StarshipFlight? As we have already informed you from 20bits, the next flight of Starship V3 will serve to verify several important points.

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