Faktëve

Faktëve is an Albanian noun form derived from the word fakt, which means "fact." It represents a less common inflected variant used in oblique grammatical contexts and is not the standard nominative plural for the word meaning “the facts.”

In Albanian, nouns are declined for number and case. The basic, commonly used forms of the word are fakt (the fact), fakti (the fact, definite singular), and faktet (the facts, definite plural). The form faktëve appears in contexts where the noun is required in an oblique case, such as after prepositions that govern genitive or dative relations, and it may occur in dialects or stylistic registers that preserve older or alternative inflection patterns. Because of this, faktëve is more often encountered in regional speech or written texts aiming to reflect a particular linguistic heritage rather than in standard, everyday Albanian.

Etymology wise, fakt is widely understood to be borrowed from Latin factum or a Romance-language equivalent, and the suffix -ëve in this form signals an oblique plural or a related case ending in Albanian morphology. The standard way to refer to “the facts” in contemporary Albanian remains faktet, with the genitive construction typically formed as faktet e … or other prepositional phrases.

See also: fakt, fakti, faktet. Notes on spelling and usage may vary by dialect, and users encountering faktëve should consider the surrounding syntactic context to determine whether a more standard form (faktet, faktet e …) would be preferred.