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# contrôler — French to English

How French *contrôler* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: contrôlaient (368), contrôlait (472), contrôle (369 701), contrôlent (3 705), contrôler (35 862), contrôles (54 844), contrôlez (38), contrôlons (79), contrôlé (6 303), contrôlée (10 767), contrôlées (7 435), contrôlés (5 873). By style: everyday 291 · literary 3 · parliamentary 32 017 · legal and administrative 105 254 · UN documents 357 882.

## control

Used about 266 025 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 206 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 16 906 · legal and administrative ≈ 58 681 · UN documents ≈ 190 232). Forms: control, controlled, controls. Meaning: [control in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/control/).

- Tu ne peux me **contrôler**.
  You can't **control** me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1951434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1951434) [\#2061777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2061777))

- C'était un de ces moments où il exerçait sans **contrôle**, mais avec tous les scrupules d'une conscience sévère, son redoutable pouvoir discrétionnaire.
  It was one of those moments when he was exercising without **control**, but subject to all the scruples of a severe conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4227)

- Ils doivent être **contrôlés**.
  They have to be **controlled**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1282463)

- **Contrôlé** par Moghddami Fard.
  **Controlled** by Moghddami Fard.
  ([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 2290665)

- **Contrôle** du matériel et inventaire
  Property and inventory **control**
  ([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 1491250)

## monitored

Used about 55 528 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 4 002 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 780 · UN documents ≈ 41 741). Forms: monitor, monitored.

- Ses signes vitaux sont **contrôlés** de près.
  Her vital signs are being closely **monitored**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#521013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/521013) [\#545281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545281))

- L'information doit être **contrôlée** avant publication.
  The information must be **monitored** before publication.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1195421)

- Liste et fonction de tous les composants **contrôlés** par le système OBD (8)
  List and purpose of all components **monitored** by the OBD system (8)
  ([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 4453596)

- La MONUG a **contrôlé** certains de ces exercices.
  UNOMIG **monitored** some of these exercises.
  ([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 19501235)

- Le docteur a **contrôlé** le rythme cardiaque du patient et sa pression artérielle.
  The doctor **monitored** the patient's heartbeat and blood pressure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#28101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28101) [\#774256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/774256))

## More sentences

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

- Sami avait du mal à **contrôler** sa colère.
  Sami had difficulty controlling his anger.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6387487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6387487) [\#6387649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6387649))

- Il est temps que je me fasse **contrôler** les yeux.
  It's time for me to get my eyes checked.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#11243326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11243326) [\#11243325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11243325))

- Voulez-vous **contrôler** les pneus ?
  Will you check the tires?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#687800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/687800) [\#6276995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6276995))

## Grammar

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