Controllò

Controllò is the Italian verb form meaning “he checked” or “he controlled,” and it is the third-person singular of controllare in the passato remoto, the literary past tense. The form is regular for an -are verb, built from the stem controll- plus the ending -ò for the third person singular. Controllare itself means to check, inspect, or verify, and controllò is used to narrate a completed action in formal or literary prose.

In modern Italian, the passato remoto is uncommon in everyday speech and is typically replaced by the passato prossimo (ha controllato) to express past actions. Controllò therefore appears mainly in literature, historical chronicles, and other formal narration, where a sequence of events is recounted in a distant past.

Conjugation notes: The regular passato remoto endings for -are verbs in the third person singular and plural are: io controllai, tu controllasti, lui/lei controllò, noi controllammo, voi controllaste, loro controllarono.

Pronunciation: controllò is pronounced with the stress on the final syllable: con-tro-LLÒ, IPA [kon.troˈllò].

Example: Il responsabile controllò i registri prima di firmare il rapporto. This sentence illustrates how the form functions in narrative prose to indicate a past, completed action performed by a masculine singular subject.