diff --git a/compiler/frontend.common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/KtSourceElement.kt b/compiler/frontend.common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/KtSourceElement.kt
index 2a6ea8decac..2d917aab85e 100644
--- a/compiler/frontend.common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/KtSourceElement.kt
+++ b/compiler/frontend.common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/KtSourceElement.kt
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ object KtRealSourceElementKind : KtSourceElementKind() {
         get() = false
 }
 
+/**
+ * When an element has a kind of KtFakeSourceElementKind it means that relevant FIR element was created synthetically.
+ * And while this definition might look a bit vaguely because, e.g. RawFirBuilder might create a lot of "synthetic" things
+ * and not all of them we want to treat as "fake" (like when's created from if's), there is a criteria that ultimately means
+ * that one need to use KtFakeSourceElementKind, and it's the situation when several FIR elements might share the same source element.
+ *
+ * And vice versa, KtRealSourceElementKind means that there's a single FIR node in the resulting tree that has the same source element.
+ */
 sealed class KtFakeSourceElementKind(final override val shouldSkipErrorTypeReporting: Boolean = false) : KtSourceElementKind() {
     // for some fir expression implicit return typeRef is generated
     // some of them are: break, continue, return, throw, string concat,