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comporter: Conjugation

The comporter conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb comporter according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of comporter, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of comporter at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je comporte tu comportes il/elle comporte nous comportons vous comportez ils/elles comportent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai comporté tu as comporté il/elle a comporté nous avons comporté vous avez comporté ils/elles ont comporté Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je comportais tu comportais il/elle comportait nous comportions vous comportiez ils/elles comportaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais comporté tu avais comporté il/elle avait comporté nous avions comporté vous aviez comporté ils/elles avaient comporté Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je comporterai tu comporteras il/elle comportera nous comporterons vous comporterez ils/elles comporteront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai comporté tu auras comporté il/elle aura comporté nous aurons comporté vous aurez comporté ils/elles auront comporté Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je comporterais tu comporterais il/elle comporterait nous comporterions vous comporteriez ils/elles comporteraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais comporté tu aurais comporté il/elle aurait comporté nous aurions comporté vous auriez comporté ils/elles auraient comporté Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je comporte tu comportes il/elle comporte nous comportions vous comportiez ils/elles comportent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie comporté tu aies comporté il/elle ait comporté nous ayons comporté vous ayez comporté ils/elles aient comporté Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je comportai tu comportas il/elle comporta nous comportâmes vous comportâtes ils/elles comportèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus comporté tu eus comporté il/elle eut comporté nous eûmes comporté vous eûtes comporté ils/elles eurent comporté Pronounce these verb forms

This verb follows the so-called regular -er verb pattern, the pattern followed by vast majority of verbs of the language, and by practically all new verbs entering the language.

The regular -er pattern has the following defining features:

• No characteristic consonant (contrast, for example, with verbs following the finir or dormir patterns, which have a characteristic -ss- and -m- in all forms but the present tense singular);
• No vowel change in the stem, other than where necessary to respect general patterns of French phonology (e.g. see préférer)²;
• Past participle in -é¹.

1. Outside the regular -er paradigm, only aller, être and naître have past participles ending in -é.
2. Many other verb patterns, except verbs of the finir type plus a few other patterns, have an irregular vowel change, e.g. boire > je bois vs nous buvons. See the grammar section on irregular verb patterns in French for a list of the different vowel changes.