Thread: surpass, outreach, outperform, exceed

In Greek for all these verbs we just have one verb that can be used interchangeably in the cases:
1. The horsepower of car A outperforms that of car B
2. Supply of housed exceed the corresponding demand
3. The profitability of project A surpasses that of project B
4. She had to outreach her opponent to win the fencing match.

The word превышать can do the "dirty" work of translating everything effectively?

1-3 Yes
4 превосходить (превзойти). Person cannot превышать another person. Превосходить, быть лучше, быть сильнее,... should be used.

If you want to improve yourself you must exceed your limits!
Google translate gives me: перегнать?
How about переходить пределы?

When it comes to limits, Russians say: выходить за пределы or выходить за рамки.

I'd use:

Если вы хотите становиться лучше, то вам необходимо выходить за собственные пределы.

Something like that.

выходить за собственные пределы

Never heard such kind of phrase, but there is a set phrase "превосходить(превзойти) себя".
Indeed, now I see Превосходить as a very versatile word, even better than превышать.

Originally Posted by maxmixiv

Never heard such kind of phrase, but there is a set phrase "превосходить(превзойти) себя".

That's because you haven't tried that yet

https://www.google.ru/webhp?sourceid...B5%D0%BB%D1%8B

I don't like the phrase as well, but there you go. Also превзойти себя doesn't necessarily mean that you surpassed your limits. Wording is important in this philosophical BS.