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.

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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2200123 #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) · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #294604 #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 · 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 · 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 ' exceptions.

  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 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 · 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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · #1494528 #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 · 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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Scott · checked, community translation · #11935641 #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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5306946 #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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10366303 #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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1779371 #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 · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #240490 #462044

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