fack
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *pÀǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”).
Alternative forms
- fec (obsolete)
Noun
fack (plural facks)
- (Britain dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.
Verb
fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)
- (Britain, eye dialect, Cockney) fuck
Swedish
Pronunciation
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Noun
fack n
- a compartment, a box, a slot (one of several)
- a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)
- a trade union; Contraction of fackförening.
Declension
| Declension of fack | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | fack | facket | fack | facken |
| Genitive | facks | fackets | facks | fackens |
Related terms
- (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, postfack
- (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig
See also
- placera någon i ett fack