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# limited — English to French

How English *limited* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: limited (139 475). By style: everyday 43 · literary 1 · parliamentary 5 226 · legal and administrative 21 615 · UN documents 112 590.

## limité

Used about 57 581 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 722 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 609 · UN documents ≈ 42 221). Forms: limité, limitée, limitées.

- Our time is **limited**.
  Notre temps est **limité**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2200123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2200123) [\#2229653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2229653))

- The obedience of matter is **limited** by friction; is there no limit to the obedience of the soul?
  L'obéissance de la matière est **limitée** par le frottement; est-ce qu'il n'y a pas une limite à l'obéissance de l'âme?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30089)

- The barriers to production have **limited** production.
  Les entraves à la production ont **limité** la production.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 960197)

- The batch size shall be **limited** to the quantities laid down below:
  L’effectif du lot est **limité** aux quantités ci-après:
  ([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 1557390)

- **Limited** capacity and resources
  Capacité et ressources **limitées**
  ([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 27580067)

## nombre

Used about 6 028 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 436 · legal and administrative ≈ 901 · UN documents ≈ 4 691).

- He **limited** the membership to twenty.
  Il limita le **nombre** d'adhésions à vingt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#294604](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294604) [\#131735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131735))

- As it happens, we can only fund a very **limited** number of programmes.
  Or, nous ne pouvons financer qu’un **nombre** très restreint de programmes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 799946)

- Given the **limited** number of parties that submitted some data, some of the figures presented below are in the form of ranges.
  Vu le **nombre** restreint de parties à avoir transmis des données, certains chiffres sont présentés ci-après sous la forme de fourchettes.
  ([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 4095724)

- A **limited** number of exemptions are listed in Section 2.1
  Le paragraphe 2 prévoit un **nombre** restreint d &apos; exceptions.
  ([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 26905789)

- It costs three times as much and even then the number of patients is even **limited**.
  Le coût est trois fois plus élevé et, même dans ce cas, il faut limiter le **nombre** de patients.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1061269)

## temps

Used about 112 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 109).

- Tom has **limited** free time.
  Tom dispose de peu de **temps** libre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1494528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1494528) [\#1693151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1693151))

- You have been here too long not to know that we are a special parliament and that speaking time is strictly **limited**.
  Vous êtes trop ancienne dans cette enceinte pour ne pas savoir que nous sommes un parlement tout à fait particulier, avec des **temps** de parole très limités.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725786)

- Tom has **limited** spare time.
  Tom dispose de peu de **temps** libre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#11935641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11935641) [\#1693151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1693151))

- I had **limited** time to write my essay, so I cut corners here and there.
  J'avais peu de **temps** pour rédiger mon essai, alors j'ai pris des raccourcis ici et là.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5306946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5306946) [\#8976820](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8976820))

## More sentences

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

- When funds are **limited**, priorities need to be set.
  Lorsque les fonds sont limités, il faut établir des priorités.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10366303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10366303) [\#11181087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11181087))

- Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be **limited** without being lost.
  Notre liberté dépend de la liberté de la presse et cela ne peut pas être restreint sans être perdu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1779371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1779371) [\#1784791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1784791))

- To do him justice, he did his best with his **limited** men and supplies.
  Pour lui rendre justice, il a fait de son mieux avec des ressources et des effectifs limités.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#240490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240490) [\#462044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/462044))

## 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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