comportement — French to English

How French comportement is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: comportement (43 113), comportements (18 175). By style: everyday 209 · parliamentary 3 026 · legal and administrative 4 656 · UN documents 53 397.

behaviour

Used about 31 798 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 41 · parliamentary ≈ 1 954 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 104 · UN documents ≈ 26 699). Forms: behaviour, behaviours. Meaning: behaviour in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Votre comportement a été honteux.

  Your behaviour was disgraceful.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and zvzuibqx · checked, community translation · #4870718 #2329816

• Son comportement a-t-il irrité le violeur?

  Did her behaviour irritate the rapist?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1318856

• théorie du comportement du conducteur;

  theory of driving behaviour,

  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 917138

• Le comportement des jeunes européens en matière de contraception;

  Contraceptive behaviour of young Europeans

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• Ton comportement était inexcusable.

  Your behaviour was inexcusable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · #11985593 #5382938

conduct

Used about 10 842 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 95 · legal and administrative ≈ 728 · UN documents ≈ 10 012). Meaning: conduct in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Nous fûmes surpris par son comportement.

  We were surprised at his conduct.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #22746 #460228

• Le fait de servir des vins médiocres n'est donc pas vraiment un rempart contre les mauvais comportements.

  So serving bad wines is not really a safeguard against unruly conduct.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1937771

• Ce comportement serait en conformité avec le critère de l'OEM et bénéficierait à la RAS.

  Such conduct would be in line with the MEO test and would benefit RAS.

  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 3521018

• «a) La nature du comportement;

  “(a) The nature of the actor’s conduct,

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• Je n'ai jamais vu un comportement si irrespectueux. Se conduit-il toujours de cette manière?

  I've never seen such disrespectful conduct. Does he always behave this way?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · #7575410 #7575494

attitudes

Used about 6 360 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 189 · legal and administrative ≈ 49 · UN documents ≈ 6 118).

• Les comportements sociaux prennent souvent plusieurs générations pour se modifier.

  Social attitudes oftentimes take generations to change.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Thomz and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #5761669 #5762383

• Je disais donc que les comportements doivent changer.

  Attitudes, therefore, have to change.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1220342

• les comportements et façons de voir les choses: ne pas accepter qu’il soit nécessaire de recycler, ne pas être assez motivé pour limiter et trier les déchets.

  attitudes and perceptions: not accepting there is a need to recycle, being insufficiently motivated to avoid and sort waste.

  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 5078688

• modifier les attitudes et les comportements;

  Changing attitudes and behaviours

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• Les comportements changent petit à petit et uniquement si une situation change réellement.

  Attitudes change slowly and only if the reality of a situation improves.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 962380

change

Used about 1 224 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 63 · legal and administrative ≈ 49 · UN documents ≈ 1 112). Meaning: change in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Pour y arriver, il faut toutefois changer les normes de production et les comportements de consommation.

  To achieve this, however, entails a change in standards of production and consumption.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 906570

• Amélioration de la performance énergétique des bâtiments publics existants grâce à la surveillance, à la gestion de l’énergie et à la promotion du changement des comportements

  Improving the energy performance of existing public buildings through monitoring, energy management and fostering of behavioural change

  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 4786694

• Pour favoriser un changement de comportement, il fallait organiser des campagnes de sensibilisation et pour apprécier les changements structurels il fallait utiliser des indicateurs qualitatifs.

  Behavioural change must be promoted via awareness campaigns, while structural changes called for qualitative indicators.

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• On peut espérer qu'ainsi, le moment viendra où les comportements changeront et où ces pratiques abominables cesseront.

  In that way, hopefully, at some stage, we may get a change of attitude and an elimination of this abominable practice.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1541767

• Les programmes visant la modification du comportement au Cambodge par exemple ont contribué à multiplier par quatre le taux d ' allaitement maternel en 2005 par rapport à 2000.

  Behavioural change educational programmes in Cambodia, for example, had led to a fourfold increase in breastfeeding by 2005 compared with 2000.

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More sentences

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

• Son comportement force le respect.

  His behavior is worthy of respect.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and CM · checked, community translation · #286814 #130343

• Votre comportement est inexcusable.

  Your behavior is inexcusable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and DJ_Saidez · checked, community translation · #9354761 #549398

• Je ne suis pas satisfait de son comportement lors de la fête.

  I am dissatisfied with his manners at the party.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and Dejo · checked, community translation · #35716 #1593580

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