Translation
to do; to make
Examples
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What are you doing?
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I have done nothing today.
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They made their way overland.
Fac .
Do what I told you.
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This cannot be done.
Facio, facere, feci, factum is a third conjugation verb of the -io type, and it is irregular in exactly the places you use most. Its imperative drops the ending to a bare fac, one of the famous four alongside dic, duc and fer. Its passive is supplied by a separate verb altogether, fio, fieri, factus sum, to be made or to become, which is why this cannot be done comes out as hoc fieri non potest. In compounds the a weakens to i, giving conficio, perficio and efficio, and the supine factum gives fact, factory and, through French faire, a great deal else.
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