fakt

Internationalism; Likely from Russian факт (fakt), ultimately from Latin factum.

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fakt (definite accusative faktı, plural faktlar)

1. fact

   fakt budur ki[...] ― the fact is that...

   Faktlar yaman tərs şeydir. ― Facts are a terribly stubborn thing.

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “fakt”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[2] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, Baku: Şərq-Qərb

• faktum

Derived from Latin factum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfakt]

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• Hyphenation: fakt
• Rhymes: -akt

fakt m inan

1. fact

   Synonym: skutečnost

   Fakt jo? ― Really?; Seriously?

A more commonly used form for Nominative, Accusative and Vocative plural is fakta. This is a remnant of an earlier duplicate form faktum of neuter gender. For this reason when the plural form fakta is used, it is grammatically treated as having neuter gender, not masculine gender.

• “fakt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “fakt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “fakt”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Polish fakt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfakt/
• Rhymes: -akt
• Syllabification: fakt

fakt m inan

1. fact (something which is real; something actual as opposed to invented)

• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “fakt”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volume 1, page 156
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “fakt”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3], volume 1, page 391

Borrowed from Latvian fakts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑkt/, [ˈfɑkˑt̪]

fakt

1. fact

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “fakt”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[4] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Learned borrowing from Latin factum.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1843.^[4]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfakt/

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• Rhymes: -akt
• Syllabification: fakt

fakt m inan (diminutive fakcik)

1. (countable) fact (something which is real; something actual as opposed to invented)
2. (uncountable) fact (something considered obvious by the speaker)

• → Kashubian: fakt
• → Silesian: fakt

fakt

1. that's a fact; the fact is

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), fakt is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 42 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 70 times in essays, 22 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 174 times, making it the 330th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

• fakt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fakt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “fakt”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “fakt”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 712

• fȁkat

From Latin factum.

• IPA^(key): /fâkt/

fȁkt m inan (Cyrillic spelling фа̏кт)

1. fact

• “fakt”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from German Fakt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfakt/

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• Rhymes: -akt
• Syllabification: fakt

fakt m inan

1. fact (something which is real; something actual as opposed to invented)

• fakt in silling.org

Derived from Latin factum.

• IPA^(key): [fakt]

fakt m inan (relational adjective faktový, diminutive faktík)

1. fact

• faktický

• “fakt”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025