#56 "Egentlig" vs. "faktisk" – What's the difference actually?

(Transkribert av TurboScribe. Oppgrader til Ubegrenset for å fjerne denne meldingen.) Hi folkens! In today's episode, we are gonna discover the difference between EGENTLIG and FAKTISK. Truth is, the difference is actually super easy. Let's start with FAKTISK. FAKTISK. Faktisk is related to facts. Faktisk. Instead of Faktisk, you can say in English as a matter of fact. The thing with Faktisk is that your focus is on something being surprising and a new information. You're introducing a new information that the person you're talking to might not have yet. Or an information that you didn't have yourself that made you surprised. For instance, Naboen har faktisk flyttet. The neighbor has actually moved. Or as a matter of fact, the neighbor has moved. I didn't know that. Did you know that? Here you can use FAKTISK. You cannot use EGENTLIG. So let's talk about EGENTLIG. EGENTLIG. The best translation for EGENTLIG is in reality. You could also translate it to as a matter of fact, but then you don't really get all the nuances. So EGENTLIG is used when you introduce something that might not be obvious or that might not be visible. Something that is hidden. That is not how it appears to be. So EGENTLIG shows what is hidden. What is behind what you see. What is the real truth. So for instance, imagine somebody meets your neighbor. Your neighbor has a really bad day and seems very grumpy. So your friend might say, oh that's a grumpy neighbor. Then you can say, han er EGENTLIG veldig hyggelig. He's actually, in reality, the hidden truth that you don't see, is really nice. Here you could also have used FAKTISK, but then your focus is only on the fact that that is surprising. When you can use EGENTLIG, you can also use FAKTISK, but my point is that FAKTISK doesn't mean exactly the same thing. Whereas you cannot always use EGENTLIG when you can use FAKTISK. Sometimes EGENTLIG wouldn't make any sense at all. Now let's look at another example. Imagine you are at work. It's lunchtime. You enter the lunchroom and your colleagues switch to English, because they don't think you can speak Norwegian. Then you can say, dere kan snakke norsk. Jeg kan faktisk snakke norsk. You can speak Norwegian. As a matter of fact, I do speak Norwegian. Might be surprising to you, but it's true. Okay, another scenario. Almost the same situation. You enter a lunchroom and you meet your new colleagues. They ask you, do you speak Norwegian? Snakker du norsk? And you, of course, you speak Norwegian, but you don't really feel like it. You're really tired and your brain just won't switch to Norwegian. All the words you're thinking of come in English or in another language. So you can say, jeg kan egentlig snakke norsk, men jeg er veldig sliten i dag. The truth that you can't see today, that is hidden today, in reality, I can speak Norwegian, but today I'm very tired. So what you're saying is that you can't see this, but actually, it's true that I can speak Norwegian. Very often, egentlig, when there is an egentlig, there is also a but. In reality, it's like this, but because of this, it's like this. In reality, the neighbor is nice, but because he's had a horrible day, he's not today. In reality, I can speak Norwegian, but since I have a very tiring day, I prefer not to. Now you know everything you need to know about faktisk and egentlig. Go out, use it, fail, use it again, and you will get it right next time. Takk for idag! Vi høres!