faken
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]faken (third-person singular simple present fakens, present participle fakening, simple past and past participle fakened)
- (rare, nonstandard, transitive) To make fake; to fake
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]faken (weak, third-person singular present fakt or (proscribed) faket, past tense fakte or (proscribed) fakete, past participle gefakt or (proscribed) gefaket or (proscribed) gefaked, auxiliary haben)
- (film, media, social media) to fake
- (informal) to fake (in general)
Usage notes
[edit]- As with other verbs of English origin where ‹a›, ‹i› correpond to [ɛɪ̯], [aɪ̯], the conjugated forms commonly (but unofficially) retain the -e- (as faket, fakete etc.). The past participle is often also spelt gefaked.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | faken | ||||
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present participle | fakend | ||||
past participle | gefakt gefaket1 gefaked1 | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich fake | wir faken | i | ich fake | wir faken |
du fakst du fakest1 |
ihr fakt ihr faket1 |
du fakest | ihr faket | ||
er fakt er faket1 |
sie faken | er fake | sie faken | ||
preterite | ich fakte ich fakete1 |
wir fakten wir faketen1 |
ii | ich fakte2 ich fakete1,2 |
wir fakten2 wir faketen1,2 |
du faktest du faketest1 |
ihr faktet ihr faketet1 |
du faktest2 du faketest1,2 |
ihr faktet2 ihr faketet1,2 | ||
er fakte er fakete1 |
sie fakten sie faketen1 |
er fakte2 er fakete1,2 |
sie fakten2 sie faketen1,2 | ||
imperative | fak (du) fake (du) |
fakt (ihr) faket (ihr)1 |
1Proscribed.
2Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
1Proscribed.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Low German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German vā̆ken, vā̆kene, from Middle Low German vak (“room, space, interval”). Cognate with Dutch vaak (“often”), German Fach (“compartment, division”).
Adverb
[edit]faken
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