限り・かぎり - Grammar Discussion

Grammar Points
#1

as long as
while… is the case
limited to

Structure

  • Verb[る] + 限り + Phrase
  • Verb[ない] + 限り + Phrase
  • Verb[ている] + 限り + Phrase
  • Noun[である] + 限り

硬

[A限り、B. means that as long as A continues, B will not change. Or to express a limit of some scope like 見る限り - ‘as far as one can see’]

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#2

In the example sentence 休息をとらない限り、体調は回復しませんよ, would ことには not work in place of 限り？

#3

Hi!

After studying this grammar point and seeing the translation of the example sentence ‘行列に並ばない限り、あのパンは買えない’, wouldn’t ‘unless you get in the queue, you cannot buy that bread’ be a more suitable translation?

In general, wouldn’t ‘Verb［ない］+ 限り’ be more clearly expressed as ‘unless + Verb in affirmative form’?

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