SERVE - Translation from English into Polish

I. serve [sɜ:v, Am sɜ:rv] VB trans

1. serve customer, guest:

serve: obsługiwać [perf obsłużyć]

2. serve food, drink:

serve: podawać [perf podać]

3. serve (be enough for):

the pasta should serve three people: makaronu powinno wystarczyć dla trzech osób

4. serve country, purpose:

serve: służyć

5. serve LAW:

serve prison sentence: odsiadywać [perf odsiedzieć]

to serve time [for sth]: odsiadywać [za coś] wyrok

6. serve (be useful):

to serve sb as sth: służyć [perf po-] komuś za coś

7. serve (provide):

to serve sb with sth: zaopatrywać kogoś w coś

8. serve (in tennis, volleyball):

serve: serwować [perf za-]

9. serve (deliver):

serve: doręczać [perf doręczyć]

Phrases:

it serves him right inf: ma za swoje

it serves him right inf: dobrze mu tak

II. serve [sɜ:v, Am sɜ:rv] VB intr

1. serve (give food):

serve: podawać [perf podać] do stołu

2. serve (do job):

serve: służyć

to serve as ambassador to...: pełnić funkcję ambasadora w...

to serve on a committee: zasiadać [perf zasiąść] w komisji

3. serve (be useful):

to serve as...: służyć jako...

4. serve (in tennis, volleyball):

serve: serwować [perf za-]

5. serve REL:

serve: służyć do mszy

III. serve [sɜ:v, Am sɜ:rv] N

serve: serwis m

serve out VB trans

1. serve out (complete):

serve out: odsłużyć

serve out sentence: odsiadywać [perf odsiedzieć]

2. serve out → serve up

serve up VB trans

serve up: podawać [perf podać] do stołu

serve up VB trans

serve up: podawać [perf podać] do stołu

Present
I	serve
you	serve
he/she/it	serves
we	serve
you	serve
they	serve

Past
I	served
you	served
he/she/it	served
we	served
you	served
they	served

Present Perfect
I	have	served
you	have	served
he/she/it	has	served
we	have	served
you	have	served
they	have	served

Past Perfect
I	had	served
you	had	served
he/she/it	had	served
we	had	served
you	had	served
they	had	served

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Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to serve a sentence: odsiadywać [perf odsiedzieć] wyrok

to serve its purpose: spełniać [perf spełnić] swoje zadanie

to do [or serve] time inf: odsiadywać wyrok

to serve the nation: służyć krajowi

a break of serve: przełamanie nt serwisu

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

It should serve as a focal point and organizing agency for the interlibrary loan of books. 4.

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The original gas pipes now serve as tubing to hold electrical wire.

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These chemicals may also serve to increase the females reproductive success, but at the cost of decreased longevity and immune response.

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It consists of students who ought to serve the student body by promoting the common good in the principle of subsidiarity.

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Campus spaces serve as virtual laboratories for the study of desert development, biological sciences and the symbiotic relationship between environment and community.

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