# faktum
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfaktum]
* Hyphenation: fak‧tum

### Noun

faktum n
* Alternative form of fakt

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “faktum”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “faktum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “faktum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “faktum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

## Danish
### Etymology

From Latin factum, neuter perfect participle of faciō (“I do, I make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faktɔm/, [ˈfɑɡ̊tˢɔm]

### Noun

faktum n (singular definite faktummet, plural indefinite fakta)
* fact

#### Synonyms

* kendsgerning

### Further reading

* “faktum” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Latin factum (“fact”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɒktum]
* Hyphenation: fak‧tum
* Rhymes: -um

### Noun

faktum (plural faktumok)
* (archaic) fact
    Synonym: tény

#### Derived terms

* diktum-faktum

#### Related terms

* faktuális

### Further reading

* faktum in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* faktum in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin factum.

### Noun

faktum n (definite singular faktumet, indefinite plural fakta, definite plural faktaene)
* a fact

#### Derived terms

* faktaark

### References

* “faktum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin factum.

### Noun

faktum n (definite singular faktumet, indefinite plural faktum or fakta, definite plural faktuma or faktaa)
* a fact

#### Derived terms

* faktaark

### References

* “faktum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin factum. Compare facit.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

faktum n
* a fact (something undeniably true or real)
    Det är ett välkänt faktum att cyklar stjäls om de lämnas olåstaIt's a well-known fact that bicycles will get stolen if they're left unlocked
    Slutsignalen ljöd, och förlusten var ett faktumThe final whistle blew, and the loss was a fact/reality (something undeniably real)
    Det är ingen åsikt att de brutit mot lagen. Det är fakta.It's not an opinion that they have broken the law. It's a fact (literally, "It is facts" – see the usage notes below).
    intressanta faktainteresting facts
    faktagranskningfact-checking

#### Usage notes

* Fakta, though historically just a plural form of faktum (along with the zero plural faktum – see the declension tables below), is often used slightly differently, and is likely intuited as an entirely separate word by many native speakers:
** Fakta is often a better match than faktum for facts in the English sense. "Intressanta fakta" matches "interesting facts" in tone, whereas the tone of "intressanta faktum" is closer to "interesting things that are undeniably true or real." Compare the sports example above.
** Fakta is often intuited as a common-gender mass noun. Compare the law example above, where fakta is idiomatic despite there only being a single fact, and how fact is sometimes used like a mass noun in English as well ("It is fact, not fiction.") This intuition also means that both "intressant (singular) fakta" and "intressanta (plural) fakta" appear for "interesting facts" (though the former might be considered improper by some). Another consequence is that a definite faktan (the fact-as-a-mass-noun / the facts) sometimes appears.
** Perhaps due to the differences outlined above, a single piece of factual information (in for example a report or news article) is often called a faktauppgift rather than a faktum.
* Turns into fakta- in compounds.

#### Derived terms

* grundfakta
* faktagranskning
* faktakoll
* faktakontroll
* faktauppgift

#### Related terms

* faktisk

### See also

* datum

### References

* faktum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* faktum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* faktum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Frågelådan i svenska