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See also: afe
Spanish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) actually; truth be told
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- -Como que hace tres noches que no duermo -repuso ella-. A fe que hay poco que hacer...
- It's been about three nights I haven't slept -she replied-. It's actually because there's been little to do...
Further reading
[edit]- “a fe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28