Conjugações do verbo fazer comparadas com inglês
B1 Portuguese listening practice · Portuguese · Curated for intermediate learners
What does “fazer” mean in Portuguese?
Where English keeps one tidy root (do, does, did, done), Portuguese fazer (“to do/make”) shape-shifts. The present is faço, but the past jumps to a new fiz- stem (fiz, “I did”), and the future grabs yet another: far- gives farei (“I will do”). The past participle drops the verb almost entirely: feito. One verb, three or four different stems to recognise.
The stem-swapping is inherited, not random: fazer comes from Latin facere, and the same irregular skeleton survives in its Romance siblings — Spanish hacer (hago, hice, haré), French faire, Italian fare. The future and conditional are built on a contracted far- stem (farei, faria), which is why they look so unlike the infinitive. The subjunctive leans on the past stem too: faça (present) versus fizesse and fizer (past and future subjunctive). Learn the four anchors — faço, fiz, farei, feito — and the rest of the table falls into place.