fakte

Calque of Yiddish פֿאַקטיש (faktish), equivalent to fakto +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfakte/

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• Rhymes: -akte
• Syllabification: fak‧te

fakte

1. actually, indeed, in fact, factually

   Antonym: teorie

   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     Nu, plej verŝajne sciencistoj ĉikanus vin, kaj klarigus al vi, ke fakte tagoj daŭras foje iomete pli, foje iomete malpli.

     Well, most likely scientists would argue with you frivolously, and explain to you, that days in fact last sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.

• fakta

• “fakte”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “fakte”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “fact, matter, point, truth, why”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[2], →ISBN, pages 201, 321, 391-392, 553, 582
• Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “fakt-o”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[3], →OL, page 121

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fakte

1. inflection of faken:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive II

• IPA^(key): /ˈfakte/

fakte

1. actually, indeed, in fact

• fakta (verb, a-infinitive)
• (noun): fakta (non-standard since 2012)

Probably from Middle Low German vacht (“fencing”).

fakte f (definite singular fakta, indefinite plural fakter, definite plural faktene)

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• Use is not seldom in the plural.

• “fakte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fekta

• IPA^(key): /fakce/

fakte

1. locative singular of fakt