ils comportent

behave, act

→ comporter
comport behave; entail + ent they present / subjunctive
verb · 3rd-person plural, present tense Rare #42,866
behave, act In these examples, it is used reflexively: se comporter.
FR: Les enfants se comportent bien à l’école.
EN: The children behave well at school.
Conjugation of comporter
Indicative present
SingularPlural
First comporte —
Third comporte comportent
Subjunctive present
SingularPlural
First comporte —
Third comporte comportent

Certains mois comportent trente jours, d'autres trente et un.

Some months have thirty days, while others have thirty-one.

Les gens ne se comportent pas toujours de façon rationnelle.

People don’t always behave rationally.

Les adultes se comportent parfois comme des enfants.

Adults sometimes behave like children.

Beaucoup de gens se comportent comme ça.

Many people behave like this.

Ils se comportent comme des humains !

They behave like humans!

— Agora (2009)

Non pas que les personnes que j’emmène se comportent jamais autrement.

Not that the people I take along ever behave any differently.