hacer
Meaning
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- (transitive) to do
- (transitive) to make (something)
- (transitive) to make (e.g. someone do something or feel a certain way.)
- (idiomatic,transitive) to be
- (transitive) to go (to release or excrete (urine, excrement))
- (intransitive,transitive) to play (a part in a play)
- (intransitive,reflexive,transitive) to become; to get
- (intransitive,reflexive,transitive) to pretend being, play
- (idiomatic,intransitive,reflexive) to play the fool
- (reflexive,transitive) to prep, adorn, do (a body part)
- (intransitive,reflexive) to get used to (chiefly in idioms)
- (intransitive) to arrive (said of a certain time), be now
Concepts
like this
yield
be effective
be efficacious
be fitting
be important
be in operation
do the same
have effect
pass oneself off
suppose to be
do like
offer to do something
volunteer to do something
be suitable
comport
follow out
Synonyms
hacer una infusión
producir efecto
ser eficaz
vergar
hacer así
hacerlo así
hacer algo
hacer alguna cosa
hacer ésto o aquello
qué hacer
ya estar
a pedazos partir el pan
amonestar avisar
desasosegar a otro
engañar a otro
antes de
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ha‧cer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈθeɾ/
Etymology
From Old Spanish fazer, from Latin facere. The first-person indicative and present subjunctive may have been influenced by Latin agō, but more likely present voicing of the Latin -c- between vowels, after dropping the -i- from a hypothetical *faco.
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Sin embargo , es posible hacer generalizaciones cuando la estructura general es la misma .
It is however possible to make generalizations when the general structure is the same.
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