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# limiter — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: limitaient (753), limitait (1 527), limite (63 510), limitent (7 357), limiter (41 929), limites (73 525), limitez (15), limitons (129), limité (36 440), limitée (66 021), limitées (25 417), limités (12 999). By style: everyday 195 · literary 8 · biblical 86 · parliamentary 17 534 · legal and administrative 59 008 · UN documents 252 791.

## limit

Used about 206 320 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 117 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 8 802 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 358 · UN documents ≈ 155 032). Forms: limit, limited, limits. Meaning: [limit in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/limit/).

- C'est la **limite**.
  That's the **limit**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2251269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251269) [\#6545595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6545595))

- Aucun curieux ne dépassait cette **limite**.
  No curious observer passed that **limit**.
  ([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)

- Je vois des bornes à tout ce qui est parfait: Tes commandements n’ont point de **limite**.
  I have seen a **limit** to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM
  ([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)

- Mais ses pouvoirs sont **limités**.
  But its powers are **limited**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 304547)

- axes **limités** à x, z et c;
  Axes **limited** to x, z and c;
  ([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 2618442)

## restricted

Used about 13 447 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 257 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 795 · UN documents ≈ 8 393).

- La liberté de parole est **limitée** dans certains pays.
  Freedom of speech is **restricted** in some countries.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Melaaya and CK · checked, community translation · [\#239796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239796) [\#8716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8716))

- Dans un marché **limité**, la part européenne ne peut que diminuer.
  In a **restricted** market, Europe's share must not be allowed to contract.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1619037)

- **Limité** aux dispositions figurant à l'annexe 21
  **Restricted** to the provisions included in Annex 21
  ([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 3583447)

- Scrutin **limité** en cas de ballottage pour une charge élective
  **Restricted** balloting for one elective place
  ([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 14958411)

- Des mesures concrètes et même **limitées**, ou une combinaison des trois?
  Concrete and even **restricted** measures? Or a combination of all three?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1759763)

## only

Used about 5 904 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 978 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 469 · UN documents ≈ 3 456). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/).

- La crise doit stimuler, avant tout, l'élaboration de stratégies pour l'avenir, et non se **limiter** à la recherche des erreurs et des raisons de leur apparition dans le passé.
  The crisis should serve as an impetus, first of all, to the development of strategies for the future, and not **only** to the search for mistakes and the reasons for their occurrence in the past.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10102101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10102101) [\#10639306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10639306))

- Ne vous **limitez** pas au seul budget européen.
  Do not look **only** to the European budget.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1360848)

- **Limité** aux véhicules sans pédale d’embrayage (ou poignée d’embrayage pour les catégories A ou A1)»
  Valid **only** for vehicles without a clutch pedal (or lever operated manually for categories A or A1)’;
  ([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 1447399)

- Les activités notariales se **limitent** à la vérification.
  The role of the notary is reduced to verification **only**.
  ([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 10839223)

- Jusqu'à présent, cette interdiction se **limitait** toutefois aux bovins.
  As you know, until then they had **only** been banned for ruminants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 183542)

## More sentences

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

- Vous devez **limiter** la consommation d'alcool.
  You should cut down on your drinking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcimat and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · [\#7668036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7668036) [\#1987277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1987277))

- Nous devons **limiter** les dépenses.
  We need to keep expenses down.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9020774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9020774) [\#10491640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10491640))

- Nous avons opté pour une version simplifiée du logiciel pour **limiter** les frais.
  We opted for a bare bones version of the software to keep costs low.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13901330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13901330) [\#13901332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13901332))

## Grammar

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