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# controlled — English to French

How English *controlled* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [controlled in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/controlled/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: controlled (36 081). By style: everyday 31 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 467 · legal and administrative 8 521 · UN documents 26 057.

## contrôle

Used about 24 413 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 795 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 148 · UN documents ≈ 18 457). Forms: contrôle, contrôlé, contrôlée, contrôlées.

- Inflation was **controlled**.
  L'inflation était **contrôlée**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#806888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/806888) [\#10064487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10064487))

- This will be strictly **controlled** by the Commission.
  Cet objectif sera soumis à un **contrôle** rigoureux de la Commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1587115)

- Foreign EU **controlled** branches (stand-alone)
  Succursales sous **contrôle** étranger de l'UE (indépendantes)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3912106)

- Chemicals Approved Organism **controlled**
  Produits chimiques approuvés Organisme **contrôlé**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7538452)

- Inflation was **controlled**.
  L'inflation a été **contrôlée**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#806888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/806888) [\#10064486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10064486))

## zone

Used about 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 178).

- **Controlled** Access Zone: No entry without permission.
  **Zone** à accès restreint : entrée interdite sans autorisation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Paiooooo · checked, community translation · [\#328742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328742) [\#683177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/683177))

- These attacks depopulated a large area, which ADF has since **controlled** by abducting or killing people who return to their villages.
  Ces attaques ont dépeuplé une vaste **zone**, que les ADF contrôlent depuis lors en enlevant ou en tuant les personnes qui retournent dans leurs villages.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 4257320)

## lieu

Used about 31 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 31).

- Fourthly, supply and demand should be **controlled**, as well as production, and farms should be managed rationally.
  Quatrièmement, il y a **lieu** de maîtriser l'offre et la demande, ainsi que la production, et gérer les élevages de façon rationnelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1898048)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory raced drones **controlled** by artificial intelligence (A.I.) against a professional human pilot.
  Des chercheurs du Laboratoire de propulsion à réaction de NASA ont fait courir des drones contrôlés par l'intelligence artificielle (IA) contre un pilote humain professionnel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#6478998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6478998) [\#10468334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10468334))

- The Voodoo priestess sniggered when Tom and Mary, lost in this sentence, asked themselves who, if not the author, actually **controlled** their fate.
  La prêtresse vaudou ricana quand Tom et Mary, perdus dans cette phrase, se demandèrent qui donc, sinon l’auteur, maîtrisait en fait leur destin.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by arnxy20 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2472801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2472801) [\#1088856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1088856))

- The man **controlled** the country for fifty years.
  L'homme contrôla le pays pendant cinquante ans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and SUZIE · checked, community translation · [\#45370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45370) [\#548442](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/548442))

## Grammar

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