Translation
to check, to inspect
Word origin
Borrowed from French controler, from contre-role, the duplicate register a clerk kept so one copy could be checked against the other. Note the false friend - Esperanto kontroli means to check or verify, not to be in charge of something, which is regi or estri.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- contre-role
- English cognates
- control, controller
Examples
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Please check the door before sleeping.
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The teacher checked our answers.
dufoje, .
I checked twice, but the name was not there.
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