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faptă
deed (an act someone carries out, often judged as good or bad) /ˈfap.tə/
noun#3001 most common
Also: act, action (in a legal or moral sense)
Example sentences
Aceasta este o faptă bună.
This is a good deed.
Copilul a făcut o faptă rea.
The child did a bad deed.
Fapta lui a fost curajoasă.
His deed was brave.
Poliția a strâns dovezi despre faptă.
The police gathered evidence about the act.
El a fost condamnat pentru fapta comisă.
He was convicted for the act he committed.
Gravitatea faptelor sale a determinat instanța să pronunțe o sentință aspră.
The gravity of his deeds led the court to hand down a harsh sentence.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | faptă | fapte |
| Genitive | faptei | faptelor |
| Accusative | faptă | fapte |
| Vocative | faptă | fapte |
Word family
faptfact
a faceto do, to make
înfăptuito carry out, to accomplish
făptașperpetrator, culprit
de faptin fact, actually
Etymology
Faptă comes from Latin facta, the neuter plural of factum, meaning a thing done. Romanian reinterpreted this plural as a feminine singular noun, a common shift in the language's history. A sister word, fapt, kept closer to the original sense of fact or occurrence, while faptă drifted toward the moral or legal sense of an act someone performs.
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