Used to frame a statement as being a more (formally) truthful description of the situation in comparison to another claim or assumption · technically, strictly speaking, officially (with that description being secondary to some de-facto practice)
çekim: karşılaştırma eigentlicher · üstünlük am eigentlichsten
eş: im Grunde, im Grunde genommen, in Wirklichkeit, übrigens
köken: Inherited from Middle High German eigenlīche, equivalent to eigen + -lich. Compare Dutch eigenlijk.
Das wird zwar oft behauptet, aber das stimmt eigentlich gar nicht.
Eigentlich ist das verboten, aber es wird nicht durchgesetzt.
köken: Univerbation of di + fatti, literally “of facts”. Compare similar constructions with French de fait (literally “of fact”) and Spanish de hecho (literally “of fact”).
Amo Milano perché ha solo difetti, siamo venuti tutti a viverci difatti.
köken: From Middle High German eigenlīch (“own, peculiar”). Semantically and phonetically probably influenced by German eigentlich (“actually”) from the same source. Compare also Dutch eigenlijk.