kontroliraju

Kontroliraju is the third-person plural present tense form of the verb kontrolirati in Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian. Kontrolirati means to control, check, or oversee; it is a transitive verb that takes a direct object. The form kontroliraju is used with subjects such as oni or other plural nouns: Oni kontroliraju kvalitetu proizvoda. Other common present-tense forms are: ja kontroliram, ti kontroliraš, on/ona/ono kontrolira, mi kontroliramo, vi kontrolirate.

The word kontrolirati is a loanword in these languages, with its etymology often traced to Western European sources such as French contrôler or Italian controllare, possibly through English influence. The related noun is kontrola (control, inspection) and the gerund kontroliranje. In usage, kontroliraju is typically followed by an object in the accusative to indicate what is being controlled, e.g., kontroliraju financije, kontroliraju sigurnost.

Across dialects, the form kontroliraju is standard in Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian and is understood throughout the region. The term is common in contexts such as business, administration, auditing, quality assurance, and everyday speech when describing acts of supervision or verification performed by a group.