Fazer in portuguese: What you did

By James Hall / / (3) Intermediate Portuguese
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In portuguese, talking about what you did is simple.
There are no do's and did's like in English.
What did you do?
Brazilians use the verb FAZER.

Eu fiz ontem. ➜ I did it yesterday.
What did you do yesterday? > O que você fez ontem?
Como você fez isso? ➜ How did you do that?
Você fez seu deve de casa? ➜ Did you do your homework?

Let the verb FAZER 'do' all the doing.

FAZER in Portuguese is very irregular. Here it is in the in the "simple past" (the preterit tense) along with close cousins TER & DIZER:

simple past tense: ter, dizer, fazer

Some popular irregular verbs in the simple past tense.

fazer in portuguese
preterit indicative
ter
to have
eutive
você, ele, elateve
nóstivemos
vocês, eles, elastiveram
fazer in portuguese
preterit indicative
dizer
to say, tell
eudisse
você, ele, eladissemos
nós
vocês, eles, elasdisseram
fazer in portuguese
preterit indicative
fazer
to do, make
eufiz
você, ele, elafez
nósfizemos
vocês, eles, elasfizeram

* More correctly called, the preterit indicative tense.

* More accurately called, the preterit indicative tense.

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