# fakt
## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fakt (definite accusative faktı, plural faktlar)
* fact
    fakt budur ki[...] ― the fact is that...
    Faktlar yaman tərs şeydir. ― Facts are a terribly stubborn thing.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “fakt” in Obastan.com.

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* faktum

### Etymology

Derived from Latin factum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfakt]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fakt
* Rhymes: -akt

### Noun

fakt m inan
* fact
    Synonym: skutečnost
    Fakt jo? ― Really?; Seriously?

#### Declension

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.

#### Related terms

* fakticita
* faktický
* faktičnost
* faktuální

### Further reading

* “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

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish fakt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfakt/
* Rhymes: -akt
* Syllabification: fakt

### Noun

fakt m inan
* fact (something which is real; something actual as opposed to invented)

### Further reading

* 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, volume 1, page 391

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin factum. First attested in 1843.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfakt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -akt
* Syllabification: fakt

### Noun

fakt m inan (diminutive fakcik)
* (countable) fact (something which is real; something actual as opposed to invented)
* (uncountable) fact (something considered obvious by the speaker)

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: fakt
* → Silesian: fakt

### Particle

fakt
* that's a fact; the fact is

#### Derived terms

* po fakcie
* fakt faktem
* fakt dokonany
* fakt prasowy
* literatura faktu
* postawić przed faktem dokonanym pf, stawiać przed faktem dokonanym impf
* uprzedzić fakty pf, uprzedzać fakty impf

### Trivia

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.

### References

* ↑ Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “fakt”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “fakt”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “fakt”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “fakt”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “fakt”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 116

### Further reading

* 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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* fȁkat

### Etymology

From Latin factum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fâkt/

### Noun

fȁkt m (Cyrillic spelling фа̏кт)
* fact

#### Declension
### References

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

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Fakt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfakt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -akt
* Syllabification: fakt

### Noun

fakt m inan
* fact (something which is real; something actual as opposed to invented)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fakt in silling.org

## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Latin factum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fakt]

### Noun

fakt m inan (relational adjective faktový, diminutive faktík)
* fact

#### Related terms

* faktický

### Further reading

* “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