comporter
French, verb/kɔ̃.pɔʁ.te/
comporter is a French verb meaning “to include” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être muni de, en parlant d’une chose”.
What does comporter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to include
Le frontispice de l’édifice public comportait d'ailleurs toujours l’inscription « Ecole-Marie ».
- 2
to consist of, comprise
- 3
to entail (formal, risk), involve
- 4
to behave, act
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être muni de, en parlant d’une chose. 2. Rendre nécessaire ou possible, justifier en parlant des choses. 3. Se conduire et en user d’une certaine manière. 4. (En parlant de choses) Avoir un comportement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of comporter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- comportant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- comporté participle past
- comporte first-person indicative present
- comportes indicative present second-person
- comportons first-person indicative plural
- comportez indicative plural present
- comportent indicative plural present
- comportais first-person imperfect indicative
- comportait imperfect indicative singular
- comportions first-person imperfect indicative
- comportiez imperfect indicative plural
- comportaient imperfect indicative plural
- comportai first-person historic indicative
- comportas historic indicative past
- comporta historic indicative past
- comportâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce comporter?
- /kɔ̃.pɔʁ.te/
- \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to comporter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is comporter in French?
comporter appears 6.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).