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# bound — English to French

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

What it means: [bound in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bound/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: bound (25 763), bounds (1 048). By style: everyday 76 · literary 31 · biblical 92 · parliamentary 1 957 · legal and administrative 3 956 · UN documents 20 699.

## limites

Used about 6 399 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 387 · legal and administrative ≈ 824 · UN documents ≈ 5 175).

- His curiosity knew no **bounds**.
  Sa curiosité n'avait pas de **limites**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#286203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286203) [\#130271](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130271))

- When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the **bounds** of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
  Quand le Très-Haut donna un héritage aux nations, Quand il sépara les enfants des hommes, Il fixa les **limites** des peuples D’après le nombre des enfants d’Israël,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 32:8)

- However, I cannot step beyond the **bounds** of the Treaty.
  Je ne peux toutefois pas sortir des **limites** du Traité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 590011)

- The lower and upper **bounds** of each quartile of the combined buffer requirement shall be calculated as follows:
  Les **limites** haute et basse de chacun des quartiles de l'exigence globale de coussin de fonds propres sont calculées comme suit:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2854812)

- a Lower and upper **bounds** in brackets.
  a Les **limites** inférieure et supérieure sont indiquées entre parenthèses.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23537082)

## lié

Used about 1 304 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 61 · legal and administrative ≈ 577 · UN documents ≈ 647).

- I am **bound** to him by a close friendship.
  Je suis **lié** à lui par une étroite amitié.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#257308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/257308) [\#127866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/127866))

- In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and Javert **bound** to his post.
  Il ne resta plus dans la salle basse que Mabeuf sous son drap noir et Javert **lié** au poteau.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25485)

- Annas sent him **bound** to Caiaphas, the high priest.
  Anne l’envoya **lié** à Caïphe, le souverain sacrificateur.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 18:24)

- Moreover, nobody is **bound** by so stringent a code of conduct as a Commissioner, and that too is institutional reform.
  De plus, personne n’est **lié** par un code de conduite plus sévère qu’un commissaire européen. C’est cela aussi la réforme institutionnelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 623450)

- in another State **bound** by this Convention:
  dans un autre État **lié** par la présente convention:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 60204)

## More sentences

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

- Where are you **bound**?
  Vers où es-tu en chemin ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#669129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/669129) [\#4601903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4601903))

- This level of inequality is **bound** to lead to social strife.
  Ce niveau d'inégalité conduit forcément à des conflits sociaux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by araneo and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12955181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12955181) [\#12955187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12955187))

- We're **bound** to make mistakes from time to time.
  On fait forcément des erreurs de temps en temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6874152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6874152) [\#12621741](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12621741))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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