having a limit or end

The funds available for the health service are finite and we cannot afford to waste money. 用于公共医疗卫生事业的资金是有限的，我们浪费不起。

We only have a finite amount of time to complete this task - we can't continue indefinitely. 我们完成这项任务的时间是有限的，不能无限期地做下去。

in a form that shows the tense and subject of a verb, rather than the infinitive form or a participle

In the following sentence "go" is finite: "I often go to the cinema." 在句子 I often go to the cinema 中，go 是限定动词。