fazer

fazer (first-person singular present fago or faço, first-person singular preterite figem or fiz, past participle feito, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of facer

• “fazer” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Old Spanish fazer, from Latin facere. Compare Spanish hacer.

fazer (Hebrew spelling פ׳אזיר)

1. (Thessaloniki, dialectal) to make

   Synonym: (Istanbul, Izmir dialect) azer

2. (Thessaloniki, dialectal) to do

   Synonym: (Istanbul, Izmir dialect) azer

Inherited from Latin facere.

• Rhymes: -eɾ

fazer

1. to do, make
2. to create; to produce

• Fala: fel, ficel
• Galician: facer
• Portuguese: fazer

• Universo Cantigas - "fazer"

Inherited from Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /haˈd͡zeɾ/

fazer

1. to do
2. to make

• Ladino: azer, אזיר
• Spanish: hacer

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “hacer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 297

From Old Galician-Portuguese fazer, from Latin facere. Compare Galician facer, Spanish hacer, Italian fare.

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): /fɐˈzɐ(ɾ)/

• Audio (São Paulo):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fa‧zer

fazer (first-person singular present faço, first-person singular preterite fiz, past participle feito)

1. (transitive) to make
   1. to create; to produce

      A minha mãe fez este vestido para mim. ― My mother made this dress for me.

      Synonyms: produzir, confeccionar

   2. to do; to execute; to perform

      Aquele homem fez um crime terrível. ― That man committed a horrible crime.

      Respondi fazendo um gesto afirmativo. ― I answered by making an affirmative gesture.

      Synonyms: executar, realizar, praticar

   3. (auxiliary) to cause to [with infinitive ‘to do something’ and direct object ‘object made to do something’]

      A explosão fez cair alguns prédios. ― The explosion made some buildings fall.

   4. to arrange; to clean up; to tidy

      Já fiz a cama hoje. ― I've already made my bed today.

      Synonyms: arrumar, organizar

   5. to cook; to prepare (e.g. food)

      Fizemos o almoço juntos! ― We made lunch together!

      Synonyms: preparar, cozinhar

2. (intransitive) to play; to pretend to be [with de ‘someone’]

   Eu fiz de João e a minha irmã fez de Maria. ― I played Hansel and my sister played Gretel.

   fazer-se de bobo ― to play the fool

3. (transitive) to turn; to reach an age; to have a birthday

   Ambos fizeram quinze anos no mês passado. ― Both turned fifteen last month.

   Synonym: completar

4. (transitive) to sell (something) [with por ‘for a given price’] (usually to make cheaper in a bargain)

   Se comprar dois, faço por trinta dólares. ― If you buy two, I can sell them for thirty dollars.

5. (transitive) to attend a course (academic or not)

   Estou a fazer inglês. ― I'm taking an English course.

   Synonym: (Brazil) cursar

6. (transitive, impersonal) to pass (said of time)

   Faz duas horas que meu tio chegou. ― Two hours have passed since my uncle arrived.

7. (transitive, impersonal) to be; to occur (said of a weather phenomenon)

   Aqui faz sempre sol. ― It’s always sunny here.

• When related to weather or the passage of time, the verb fazer is impersonal in standard usage, and therefore cannot take a subject. It is also not inflected for number or person: it is used in the singular third-person form:

Faz duas horas. ― Two hours have passed.

Faz três segundos. ― Three seconds have passed.

Faz cinquenta anos. ― Fifty years have passed.

If not impersonal, it is conjugated normally. This happens because the third-person neuter singular is normally only implied (for demonstrative pronouns, see isto and aquilo).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fazer.

• Macanese: fazê

• “fazer”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “fazer”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “fazer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fazer”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “fazer”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fazer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

fazer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fize, past participle fecho)

1. obsolete spelling of hacer