servir
Tomé antes muchos medicamentos pero nada me servía.  | Before I took many medicines but they did not help.  | 
Él no me servía para nada.  | He was no use to me.  | 
Ya no me servía.  | I have no more use for it.  | 
Dijeron que con eso podía trabajar y me iban asegurar, pero que no me servía para migración.  | They said that with that I could work and they would insure me, but that it wouldn't work for migration.  | 
En ese entonces, mi creatividad me servía para hallar formas de sobrevivir y ahora la uso para otras cosas.  | At that time, all my creativity was in finding ways to survive, and now I'm using it in other ways.  | 
Tu tío Danny es muy buen policía, pero es impulsivo. Y cuando yo tenía tu edad, eso me servía mucho.  | Your Uncle Danny is a really good cop but sometimes he gets carried away, which at your age came in very handy at times.  | 
Cuando llegué a mi casa esa noche, mientras mi esposa me servía la cena, le agarré su mano y le dije, tengo algo que decirte.  | When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I've got something to tell you.  | 
Antes de cenar, Herman me servía un vaso de brandy con hielo.  | Before dining, Herman served a glass of brandy with ice.  | 
Pero luego me di cuenta, ¿de qué me servía sin amigos?  | But then I realized, what was it all about without friends?  | 
Ya sabes cuando me quedé con ella, me servía carne hervida.  | You know when I stayed with her, she would serve me boiled steak.  | 
Eso me servía para marcar el paso de los años.  | That would be how I kept track of the years passing.  | 
No tenía nada de malo, solo que no me servía a mí.  | Nothing was wrong with it, honey, it just didn't work for me.  | 
A veces ella me servía café.  | Sometimes she'd made me coffee.  | 
Decía cosas muy lúcidas a veces, verdaderamente, pero a mí no me servía demasiado.  | It said things very lúcidas sometimes, truly, but to me did not serve me too much.  | 
Solo necesitaba una razón, y el gozo espeluznante del acto ya me servía.  | I needed only a reason, and the terrible joy of the act was reason enough.  | 
De balón no me servía y no sabía qué hacer con ella.  | It was too small for a basketball, and I didn't know what to do with it.  | 
Él no me servía de nada.  | He was just useless.  | 
Cuando no sabía nada, me servía, pero ahora...  | There was a time when you knew too little and I could use you, but now...  | 
¿De qué me servía?  | What use was it?  | 
Así que compraba extras, las probaba y devolvía lo que no me servía.  | So I overordered, I tried things on, and then I sent what didn't work back.  | 
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