Desafio: é impossível me fazer chorar

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B1 Portuguese listening practice · Brazilian Portuguese · Curated for intermediate learners

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What does “me fazer chorar” mean in Portuguese?

me fazer chorar
Brazilian Portuguese causative pattern
make me cry“ — fazer + an infinitive means ”make someone do something

In Portuguese, fazer plus a bare infinitive means “to make someone do something.” So me fazer chorar is “make me cry,” and te fazer chorar is “make you cry” — same pattern, different person. The object pronoun (me, te, o) names who’s affected, and fazer carries the “cause” while the second verb stays in its plain infinitive form: fazer rir, fazer pensar, fazer chorar.

Notice that the conjugation lands on fazer, not on the second verb: Você me fez chorar (“you made me cry”), isso vai te fazer chorar (“that’s going to make you cry”). The infinitive never changes. The same frame works with any action — me faz rir (“makes me laugh”), me fez pensar (“made me think”) — which is why mastering it unlocks a whole family of sentences. The clip is a “you can’t make me cry” dare, so the challengers keep firing the pattern back: para me fazer chorar, vai te fazer chorar — the construction repeated until it sticks.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this B1 Portuguese listening practice listening practice?

90.9%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Portuguese words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Portuguese.

General Portuguese frequency

83.2%
Top 1,000
90.9%
Top 2,000
97.9%
Top 5,000

Spoken Portuguese frequency

95.5%
Top 1,000
97%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-Portuguese data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s B1 level.

merge
Rare / outside top 5,000
file combination
multiverso
Rare / outside top 5,000
multiverse
vagas abertas pra próxima merge
opportunities available for the next event

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-PT-BR 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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