Dictionary formfacio, facere, feci, factum
Translation
to do; to make
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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.
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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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Grammar articles
(9)Biblical Latin: How to Read the Vulgate as a Learner
Latin Imperative: Commands like dic, fac, venite
Latin Imperfect Tense: -bam, -bas, -bat and eram
Latin Indirect Questions: Question Word plus Subjunctive
Latin Irregular Verbs: sum, possum, eo, fero, volo, nolo, malo
The Latin Passive and Deponent Verbs: amatur, locutus sum
Latin Perfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive: amaverim, amavissem
The Latin Perfect: dixi, feci, fui
Latin Principal Parts: Why Verbs Have Four Forms
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 14: facio, mare, pars and 11 more words.