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servera

serve, wait on

Meaning

serve; wait on

In Swedish: lägga för (mat), hälla upp (dryck)

Conjugation

Conjugation of servera (serve)
Infinitive	att servera	to serve
Present	serverar	jag serverar
Past	serverade	jag serverade
Supine	serverat	used after har / hade
Perfect	har serverat	jag har serverat
Past perfect	hade serverat	jag hade serverat
Future	ska servera	or: kommer att servera
Conditional	skulle servera	jag skulle servera
Imperative	servera!	a command
Present participle	serverande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	serverad	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of servera
Infinitive	serveras
Present	serveras
Past	serverades
Supine	serverats

Group 1: -ar verbs. Present -ar, past -ade, supine -at. The largest and most regular group. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use serverar. See the four verb groups explained.

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Yesterday I … (servera). Which is the past tense?

servera in a sentence

hon serverade kaffet
she poured the coffee
köttet serveras med bakad potatis
the meat is served with a baked potato

Questions

What does servera mean in English?

servera means “serve, wait on”.

What is the past tense of servera?

The past tense of servera is serverade (“jag serverade”). The supine is serverat, used in “jag har serverat”.

What is the present tense of servera?

serverar, the same for every person: jag serverar, du serverar, vi serverar.

Similar words

utspisabespisa

Origin

From French servir, from Latin servīre derived from servus (slave, servant).

Nearby common words

servera is number 2,006 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,002hacka mince, hack
2,003befäl (person in) command, officer(s)
2,004tävling competition
2,005längs alongside, along
2,007promenad walk
2,008långsamt slowly
2,009bröd bread
2,010räkning arithmetic, counting

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary