What does “me fazer chorar” mean in Portuguese?

Desafio: é impossível me fazer chorar

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B1 Portuguese listening practice · Brazilian Portuguese · Picked for people who know some

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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.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this B1 Portuguese listening practice video?

90.9%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Portuguese words
Most of the words in this video are common Portuguese words.

How common in written Portuguese

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

How common in spoken Portuguese

95.5%
Top 1,000
97%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Words for talking
This video uses words people often say in Portuguese.

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than B1. Here is what they mean.

merge
1×
Not in top 5,000
file combination
multiverso
1×
Not in top 5,000
multiverse
vagas abertas pra próxima merge
1×
opportunities available for the next event

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-PT-BR 2012 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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