faken

== English == === Etymology === From fake +‎ -en. === Verb === 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 === kenaf == German == === Etymology === Borrowed from English fake. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛɪ̯kən/, /ˈfeːkən/ === Verb === faken (weak, third-person singular present fakt or (proscribed) faket, past tense fakte or (proscribed) fakete, past participle gefakt or gefaked or (proscribed) gefaket, auxiliary haben) (film, media, social media, informal) to fake ==== Usage notes ==== As with other verbs of English origin where ⟨a⟩, ⟨i⟩ correspond to [ɛɪ̯], [aɪ̯], the conjugated forms commonly (but unofficially) retain the -e- (as in er *faket, sie *fakete etc.). German verbs borrowed from English can optionally form the past participle (Partizip II) in -ed in two cases The English verb ends in a silent ⟨e⟩: English like → German liken → geliked (previously only gelikt) The verb's past participle is usually not inflected: English relax → German relaxen → relaxed (previously only relaxt) But -ed- is not permitted when the participle is inflected, thus: meine gelikten Bilder (not meine *gelikeden Bilder) ein relaxter Abend (not ein *relaxeder Abend) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== Fake Fakenews === References === === Further reading === “faken” in Duden online “faken” in OpenThesaurus.de == Low German == === Etymology === From Middle Low German vā̆ken, vā̆kene, from Middle Low German vak (“room, space, interval”). Cognate with Dutch vaak (“often”), German Fach (“compartment, division”). === Adverb === faken often, frequently