🇫🇷 French

serveur

masculine

le serveur

waiter

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serveur
/lə sɛʁvœʁ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say serveur in French?

IPA
/lə sɛʁvœʁ/

How do you pronounce serveur in French?

serveur is pronounced /lə sɛʁvœʁ/ in French.

Example sentences

Le serveur français est très attentif et poli avec les clients.

The French waiter is very attentive and polite with the customers.

Ce serveur nouveau travaille dur pour devenir un bon professionnel.

This new waiter works hard to become a good professional.

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Why is it masculine?

Serveur is masculine because it derives from the Latin "servus" (male servant), which carried masculine gender, and French retained this grammatical gender through the suffix "-eur" (a typically masculine agent noun ending). The feminine form "serveuse" was later created to denote a female server, but the base word preserved its original Latin masculine assignment.

What is the French word for waiter?

The French word for waiter is le serveur — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italiancameriereilmasculine

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