hacer.
to do, perform, execute, carry out
Meaning & usage
to do, perform, execute, carry out
¿Qué haces?
No sé que hago.
to do, perform, execute, carry out Forms ad hoc verbs from borrowed nouns.
to make to create, to build, to bring forth
En el principio, Dios hizo los cielos y la tierra.
to make to write, to compose
Le gustaba hacer poemas placenteros.
to make to prepare (food)
Empecemos a hacer el pastel.
in various expressions about the weather
¡Qué frío hace!
Ayer hacía(n) 40 grados.
to release, to excrete
hacer pis
hacer caca
to prep, adorn, do (a body part)
to make, to cause to be
No sabe cómo hacerla feliz.
to make, to cause to
Lo hiciste llorar / Hiciste que llorara.
to play (a character)
Fulanito hizo de Menganito en la película.
to become; to get
¡Hazte vegano!
Me haré rico.
to become; to get used with time
Se está haciendo tarde.
Ya se hicieron las doce.
to pretend being, play
hacerse el tonto
hacerse la víctima
to move (over), scoot (over)
ellipsis of hacerse el tonto
No te hagás: vos sabés lo que hiciste.
to get used to (chiefly in idioms)
El cuerpo se hace a las fatigas.
El caballo se hace al fuego.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin facere Old Spanish fazer Spanish hacer Inherited from Old Spanish fazer, from Latin facere. The first-person indicative (hago) and present subjunctive forms (haga, hagas, etc.) may have been influenced by Latin agō (compare English gesture), but more likely come from a voicing of intervocalic Latin /k/ after having dropped /i/ (e.g. Latin faciō > [ˈfa.ko] > hago).
task, action
Nos quedan muchos haceres.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin facere Old Spanish fazer Spanish hacer Inherited from Old Spanish fazer, from Latin facere. The first-person indicative (hago) and present subjunctive forms (haga, hagas, etc.) may have been influenced by Latin agō (compare English gesture), but more likely come from a voicing of intervocalic Latin /k/ after having dropped /i/ (e.g. Latin faciō > [ˈfa.ko] > hago).
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