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Forms: limite, limiter, limites. - That's the **limit**. C'est la **limite**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2251269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251269) [\#6545595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6545595)) - No curious observer passed that **limit**. Aucun curieux ne dépassait cette **limite**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24295) - I have seen a **limit** to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM Je vois des bornes à tout ce qui est parfait: Tes commandements n’ont point de **limite**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:96) - Solidarity therefore has its **limits**. La solidarité a donc ses **limites**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1068628) - Time **limit** for transposition Date **limite** de transposition ([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 1456504) ## valeurs Used about 1 288 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 392 · UN documents ≈ 896). - The sensors/sampling devices shall be installed in such a way that gas accumulation is detected before the **limit** values mentioned in point 3.1.1 are reached. Ces capteurs/points de prise d'échantillons doivent être placés de sorte que les concentrations de gaz soient détectées avant qu'elles n'atteignent les **valeurs** fixées au paragraphe 3.1.1. ([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 1463805) - Values were measured at less than two detection **limits**: 0.02 ug/m3 and 0.2 ug/m3. Des **valeurs** ont été observées sous deux seuils de détection : 0,02 ug/m3 et 0,2 ug/m3. ([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 25188403) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You were exceeding the speed **limit**, weren't you? Tu dépassais la limitation de vitesse, n'est-ce pas ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and tOkeshu · checked, community translation · [\#271253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271253) [\#507277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/507277)) - He ignored the speed **limit** and drove very fast. Il ne tint pas compte de la limitation de vitesse et roula très vite. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#290323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/290323) [\#12942246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12942246)) - We should observe the speed **limit**. Nous devons respecter les limitations de vitesse. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#22867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22867) [\#139044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139044)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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