faço

Faço is the first-person singular present indicative form of the Portuguese verb fazer, meaning to do or to make. It is used to express actions performed by the speaker in the present and appears in everyday speech across Portuguese-speaking countries, both in informal and formal contexts.

Conjugation and usage vary by dialect. In Brazilian Portuguese, the present tense is typically eu faço, você faz, ele/ela faz, nós fazemos, vocês fazem. Some regions also use tu fazes, while you may encounter the more formal or regional tu fazes in European Portuguese and vós fazeis in certain dialects. The form changes with other tenses (for example, eu fiz, eu fazia) and with related forms such as o particípio feito and the infinitive fazer.

Etymology and orthography: fazer derives from Latin facere. The diacritic ç in faço indicates that the soft s sound is produced before the o. This orthography helps distinguish the pronunciation from other occurrences of the letter c in different contexts. The present forms follow regular patterns around the radical faz- in most tenses, such as fazes, faz, fazemos, fazem.

Common usages and phrases: the verb is highly productive in idiomatic expressions. For example, eu faço questão de agradecer means “I make a point of thanking,” and não faço ideia means “I have no idea.” As a fundamental verb, fazer appears in countless constructions related to creating, performing, executing, or causing actions, and its correct first-person form is a basic element of everyday Portuguese.