Example: Devo controllare il saldo del mio conto in banca oggi.
Definition
"Controllare il saldo" means to check or verify the current balance of an account or a financial statement. It involves reviewing the amount of money available or remaining, often in a bank account, to understand the financial status at a given time.
The phrase "controllare il saldo" comes from Italian, where "controllare" means to control or check, derived from the Latin 'contrarotulare' meaning to check against a list. "Saldo" comes from the Old Italian 'saldo' meaning balance, originally from the Latin 'solidus', a Roman coin, which figuratively came to mean the settled or final amount.
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check the balance