behaviour — English to French

How English behaviour is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: behaviour in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: behaviour (34 657), behaviours (2 926). By style: everyday 66 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 601 · legal and administrative 3 810 · UN documents 31 105.

comportement

Used about 30 293 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · parliamentary ≈ 1 879 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 413 · UN documents ≈ 24 949). Forms: comportement, comportements.

• Her behaviour is strange.

  Son comportement est étrange.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by helloroto and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8401801 #11151504

• This is irresponsible behaviour.

  Ce comportement est irresponsable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1576059

• Fate and behaviour in soil

  Devenir et comportement dans le sol

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2904033

• Understanding of actual behaviours

  Comprendre les comportements effectifs

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 26873087

• Your behaviour was shameful.

  Ton comportement a été honteux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zvzuibqx and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4870719 #2329817

attitudes

Used about 684 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 36 · UN documents ≈ 648).

• The building of social capital, in the sense intended by Putnam, in fact goes beyond the licitness of behaviours to look at their good faith, consistency and morality.

  Le développement du capital social, dans le sens qu'entendait Putnam, va au-delà de ce qui est licite dans les attitudes, pour s'intéresser à la bonne foi, à la cohérence et à la moralité de ces attitudes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1447895

• Social drivers can either fuel or frustrate sustainable development, depending on the behaviours and norms that they uphold.

  Les facteurs sociaux peuvent favoriser ou entraver le développement durable en fonction des attitudes et normes qui les dictent.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 28780867

• In some instances, students of indigenous origin are still not able to attend universities in their traditional clothing owing to persisting racist attitudes and behaviours of other university students.

  In some instances, students of indigenous origin are still not able to attend universities in their traditional clothing owing to persisting racist attitudes and behaviours of other university students.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27445468

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• After spending four years in jail, he was set free for good behaviour.

  Après avoir passé quatre ans en prison, il a été libéré pour bonne conduite.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and suunlesoleil · checked, community translation · #1584068 #13852485

• His behaviour was anything but polite.

  Sa conduite était tout sauf courtoise.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Anthaus · checked, community translation · #11846014 #783965

• I'm ashamed of your behaviour.

  J'ai honte de votre conduite.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #11982600 #474339

Grammar

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