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.

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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #286203 #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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #257308 #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) · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #669129 #4601903

• This level of inequality is bound to lead to social strife.

  Ce niveau d'inégalité conduit forcément à des conflits sociaux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by araneo and lbdx · checked, community translation · #12955181 #12955187

• We're bound to make mistakes from time to time.

  On fait forcément des erreurs de temps en temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6874152 #12621741

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