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Translation

to do; to make

Examples

?

What are you doing?

.

I have done nothing today.

.

They made their way overland.

Fac .

Do what I told you.

.

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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This word is part of lesson 2.