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Conjugation of verb (past tense) serve

Infinitive

serve

/sɜːv/

Past simple

served

/sɝvd/

Past participle

served

/sɝvd/





Conjugation of the regular verb [serve]

Conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). For instance, the verb "break" can be conjugated to form the words break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking.


The term conjugation is applied only to the inflection of verbs, and not of other parts of speech (inflection of nouns and adjectives is known as declension). Also it is often restricted to denoting the formation of finite forms of a verb – these may be referred to as conjugated forms, as opposed to non-finite forms, such as the infinitive or gerund, which tend not to be marked for most of the grammatical categories.


Conjugation is also the traditional name for a group of verbs that share a similar conjugation pattern in a particular language (a verb class). A verb that does not follow all of the standard conjugation patterns of the language is said to be an irregular verb.

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Present

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

Present Continuous

I
am serving 
you
are serving 
he/she/it
is serving 
we
are serving 
you
are serving 
they
are serving 

Past simple

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

Past Continuous

I
was serving 
you
were serving 
he/she/it
was serving 
we
were serving 
you
were serving 
they
were serving 

Present perfect

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

Present perfect continuous

I
have been serving 
you
have been serving 
he/she/it
has been serving 
we
have been serving 
you
have been serving 
they
have been serving 

Past perfect

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

Past perfect continuous

I
had been serving 
you
had been serving 
he/she/it
had been serving 
we
had been serving 
you
had been serving 
they
had been serving 

Future

I
will serve 
you
will serve 
he/she/it
will serve 
we
will serve 
you
will serve 
they
will serve 

Future continuous

I
will be serving 
you
will be serving 
he/she/it
will be serving 
we
will be serving 
you
will be serving 
they
will be serving 

Future perfect

I
will have served 
you
will have served 
he/she/it
will have served 
we
will have served 
you
will have served 
they
will have served 

Future perfect continuous

I
will have been serving 
you
will have been serving 
he/she/it
will have been serving 
we
will have been serving 
you
will have been serving 
they
will have been serving 

Conditional of the regular verb [serve]

Causality (also referred to as causation or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process, state or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state or object (an effect) where the cause is partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause. In general, a process has many causes, which are also said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past. An effect can in turn be a cause of, or causal factor for, many other effects, which all lie in its future.


The conditional mood (abbreviated cond) is a grammatical mood used in conditional sentences to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some condition, possibly counterfactual.


English does not have an inflective (morphological) conditional mood, except in as much as the modal verbs could, might, should and would may in some contexts be regarded as conditional forms of can, may, shall and will respectively. What is called the English conditional mood (or just the conditional) is formed periphrastically using the modal verb would in combination with the bare infinitive of the following verb. (Occasionally should is used in place of would with a first person subject – see shall and will. Also the aforementioned modal verbs could, might and should may replace would in order to express appropriate modality in addition to conditionality.)

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Conditional present

I
would serve 
you
would serve 
he/she/it
would serve 
we
would serve 
you
would serve 
they
would serve 

Conditional present progressive

I
would be serving 
you
would be serving 
he/she/it
would be serving 
we
would be serving 
you
would be serving 
they
would be serving 

Conditional perfect

I
would have served 
you
would have served 
he/she/it
would have served 
we
would have served 
you
would have served 
they
would have served 

Conditional perfect progressive

I
would have been serving 
you
would have been serving 
he/she/it
would have been serving 
we
would have been serving 
you
would have been serving 
they
would have been serving 

Subjunktiv of the regular verb [serve]

The subjunctive is a grammatical mood, a feature of the utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it. Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as: wish, emotion, possibility, judgement, opinion, obligation, or action that has not yet occurred; the precise situations in which they are used vary from language to language. The subjunctive is one of the irrealis moods, which refer to what is not necessarily real. It is often contrasted with the indicative, a realis mood which is used principally to indicate that something is a statement of fact.


Subjunctives occur most often, although not exclusively, in subordinate clauses, particularly that-clauses. Examples of the subjunctive in English are found in the sentences "I suggest that you be careful" and "It is important that she stay by your side."


The subjunctive mood in English is a clause type used in some contexts which describe non-actual possibilities, e.g. "It's crucial that you be here" and "It's crucial that he arrive early." In English, the subjunctive is syntactic rather than inflectional, since there is no specifically subjunctive verb form. Rather, subjunctive clauses recruit the bare form of the verb which is also used in a variety of other constructions.

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Present subjunctive

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

Past subjunctive

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

Past perfect subjunctive

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

Imperativ of the regular verb [serve]

The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.

An example of a verb used in the imperative mood is the English phrase "Go." Such imperatives imply a second-person subject (you), but some other languages also have first- and third-person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's (do something)" or "let them (do something)" (the forms may alternatively be called cohortative and jussive).

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Imperativ

I
serve 
you
Let´s serve 
he/she/it
serve 
we
 
you
 
they
 

Participle of the regular verb [serve]

​The past participle is one of the most important parts of English grammar. It’s used to express perfect tenses and to form the passive voice. It’s also a useful tool for writing sentences that describe actions that started in the past and are still happening today. The past participles of irregular verbs don’t follow a specific pattern and can have numerous endings.

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Present participle

I
serving 
you
 
he/she/it
 
we
 
you
 
they
 

Past participle

I
served 
you
 
he/she/it
 
we
 
you
 
they
 













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