faken

From fake +‎ -en.

faken (third-person singular simple present fakens, present participle fakening, simple past and past participle fakened)

1. (rare, nonstandard, transitive) To make fake; to fake.
   • 2015, Lisa M. Doyle, For Those I'll Leave Behind:

     Partnered peace presumpted
     Freedom's face foully fakened
     Silent soulless slumbering
     The demon dragon has awakened!

   • 2017, Armin Mitchell, BattleRhymes, volume 2:

     Defiance On other people or their thinking. On religious tomes or a long awaited spiritual awakening. Fakening. Over Reliance […]

• kenaf

Borrowed from English fake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɪ̯kən/, /ˈfeːkən/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

faken (weak, third-person singular present fakt or (proscribed) faket, past tense fakte or (proscribed) fakete, past participle gefakt or gefaked or (proscribed) gefaket, auxiliary haben)

1. (film, media, social media, informal) to fake
   • 2019 April 8, Laura Ewert, “Hochstaplerin Anna Sorokin: Alle verarscht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Der Trend zum Betrug erstaunt nicht: Das Begehren steigt. Luxus ist überall. In Magazinen, auf Instagram, in Reality­shows. Luxus ist greifbarer geworden. Mit einem Like ist er fast berührbar. Wen wundert’s, dass gefaked wird.

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• As with other verbs of English origin where ⟨a⟩, ⟨i⟩ correspond to [ɛɪ̯], [aɪ̯], the conjugated forms commonly (but unofficially) retain the -e- (as in er *faket, sie *fakete etc.).

• German verbs borrowed from English can optionally form the past participle (Partizip II) in -ed in two cases^[1]
  1. The English verb ends in a silent ⟨e⟩:

     English like → German liken → geliked (previously only gelikt)

  2. The verb's past participle is usually not inflected:

     English relax → German relaxen → relaxed (previously only relaxt)

• But -ed- is not permitted when the participle is inflected, thus:

  meine gelikten Bilder (not meine *gelikeden Bilder)

  ein relaxter Abend (not ein *relaxeder Abend)

• Fake
• Fakenews

• “faken” in Duden online
• “faken” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Middle Low German vā̆ken, vā̆kene, from Middle Low German vak (“room, space, interval”). Cognate with Dutch vaak (“often”), German Fach (“compartment, division”).

faken

1. often, frequently