O limite está alto e o endividamento continua baixo.

Limite usually means limit, cap, or threshold.

In this kind of sentence, especially in Brazilian Portuguese, it often refers to a credit limit or some other financial limit. The exact meaning depends on the context, but o limite is simply the limit.

Portuguese often uses estar for a current condition or level, especially with things like:

• prices
• rates
• temperatures
• financial values

So O limite está alto sounds like the limit is high right now / in the current situation.

Using ser would suggest more of a permanent or defining characteristic. In financial contexts, Brazilian Portuguese very commonly uses estar for values being high or low.

Endividamento means indebtedness or debt level.

It is more abstract and often sounds more formal or financial than dívida.

• dívida = debt / a debt
• endividamento = indebtedness, level of debt, the state of being in debt

So o endividamento continua baixo is talking about the overall level of debt, not just one specific debt.

Continua is the present indicative, third person singular, of continuar.

It matches o endividamento, which is singular:

• eu continuo = I continue
• você continua = you continue
• o endividamento continua = the indebtedness continues

Here it means something like continues to be or remains.

Because adjectives in Portuguese agree with the noun they describe.

Here:

• o limite is masculine singular, so alto
• o endividamento is masculine singular, so baixo

Even though alto and baixo come after verbs, they still agree with the subject.

Compare:

• a taxa está alta = the rate is high
• as taxas estão altas = the rates are high
• as dívidas continuam baixas = the debts remain low

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English.

So o limite and o endividamento are perfectly normal where English might sometimes just say limit or indebtedness depending on style.

Also, in this sentence, the two nouns are separate subjects joined by e, so repeating the article is natural:

• o limite
• o endividamento

Leaving out the second o would sound wrong here.

No. They can also mean high and low in many non-physical senses.

Very common examples:

• preço alto = high price
• risco baixo = low risk
• temperatura alta = high temperature
• endividamento baixo = low indebtedness

So in this sentence, they refer to level, not physical height.

Because alto and baixo here are predicate adjectives, linked to the noun by the verbs estar and continuar:

• o limite está alto
• o endividamento continua baixo

That is different from putting the adjective directly next to the noun.

You can say um limite alto in some contexts, but o alto limite would not be the normal way to express this idea in a simple statement. The sentence is describing a current state, so estar/continuar + adjective is the natural structure.

Yes.

Continuar + adjective can often be translated in several natural ways in English:

• continues low
• continues to be low
• stays low
• remains low

In good English, remains low or stays low is often the most natural translation.

A rough Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation would be:

oo lee-MEE-che es-TAH AHL-too ee oo en-jee-vee-dah-MEN-too kon-chee-NOO-ah BY-shoo

A few helpful notes:

• limite often sounds like lee-MEE-chee in Brazil
• está has stress on the last syllable: es-TAH
• endividamento has stress on men: en-jee-vee-dah-MEN-too
• baixo sounds like BY-shoo

Pronunciation varies by region, but this approximation is close for many Brazilian accents.