# hacer
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* facer, far, fer (archaic)

### 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-; for example: *facō; *facam; et cetera.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /aˈθeɾ/ [aˈθeɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈseɾ/ [aˈseɾ]
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: ha‧cer

### Verb

hacer (first-person singular present hago, first-person singular preterite hice, past participle hecho)
* (transitive) to do
    ¿Qué haces?What are you doing?
    No sé que hago.I don't know what I'm doing.
    Prefiero no hacerloI prefer not to do it.
* (transitive) to make (something)
    Empecemos a hacer el pastel.Let's start making the cake.
    Le gustaba hacer poemas placenteros.She liked to make pleasant poems.
* (transitive) to make (e.g. someone do something or feel a certain way.)
    No sabe cómo hacerla feliz.He doesn't know how to make her happy.
    Lo hiciste llorar / Hiciste que llorara.You made him cry.
* (transitive, idiomatic, of the weather) to be
    Synonym: estar
    hace frío ― it's cold
    hace calor ― it's hot
    hace sol ― it's sunny
    hace viento ― it's windy
* (transitive) to go (to release or excrete (urine, excrement))
    hacer pis, pipí, el número uno ― to pee
    hacer caca, pupú, el número dos ― to poo
* (transitive, intransitive, optionally with de) to play (a part in a play)
    hacer la princesa ― to play the princess
    hacer de princesa ― to play a princess
    hacer de Óscar ― to play (the character of) Oscar
* (reflexive, transitive, intransitive) to become; to get
    Synonym: volverse
    ¡Hazte vegetariano!Become vegetarian!
    Me haré rico.I will get rich.
    Ese niño se hizo todo un hombre.That boy became a real man.
* (reflexive, transitive, intransitive) to pretend being, play
    hacerse el tonto ― to pretend being a fool, play the fool
    hacerse la víctima ― to play the victim
    Haceos los sofisticados si queréis, en cualquier caso nadie os cree.You can pretend to be sophisticated if you want, no one believes you anyway.
* (reflexive, intransitive, idiomatic) (Argentina) to play the fool
    No te hagás: vos sabés lo que hiciste.Don't play the fool, you know what you did.
* (reflexive, transitive) to prep, adorn, do (a body part)
    hacerse las uñas ― to do one's nails
* (reflexive, intransitive with a) to get used to (chiefly in idioms)
    El cuerpo se hace a las fatigas.The body gets used to tiredness.
    El caballo se hace al fuego.A horse gets used to fire (for the Luminarias).
* (intransitive) to arrive (said of a certain time), be now
    Se hace tarde.It's getting late.
    Se hicieron las doce.It was now/suddenly 12 o'clock.

#### Usage notes

* The use of hacerse in the sense of becoming often implies change made voluntarily, i.e. involving commitment or effort. Compare volverse, quedarse, convertirse and ponerse.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Derived terms

* a medio hacer
* abolefacer (“to destroy”)
* arefacer (“to make arid; to dry (up), wither”)
* asuefacer (“to accustom, habituate, inure to”)
* benefacer (“to do good; benefit, bless”)
* contrahacer
* deshacer
* estupefacer (“to stupefy, to make or become stupid”)
* hace (“ago”)
* hacer boca
* hacer caso (“to obey”)
* hacer caso omiso
* hacer de cuenta (“to suppose, imagine, pretend”)
* hacer la trece catorce
* hacer lástima
* hacer sitio
* hacer trampas
* hacer uso de la palabra
* hacerlo con
* hacerse a la mar
* hacerse pasar por
* hecho
* madefacer (“to wet, moisten; soak, steep; intoxicate”)
* malefacer (“to do evil or harm; injure”)
* mira lo que haces
* molifacer (“to make soft”)
* no hay que hacer
* patefacer (“to open, throw open”)
* putrefacer (“to make putrid; putrefy, rot”)
* qué se le va a hacer
* quehacer m (“work, task, chore”)
* rehacer
* rubefacer (“to make red or ruddy; redden”)
* saber hacer
* satisfacer (“to make satiated; satisfy, content”)

### Noun

hacer m (plural haceres)
* task, action
    Synonyms: quehacer, acción
    Nos quedan muchos haceres.We have a lot of tasks left.

#### Related terms

* artefacto
* estupefacto
* facción
* factor
* factorizar
* fashion
* putrefacto

### References

* ↑ fer | Definición | Diccionario de la lengua española | RAE - ASALE

### Further reading

* “hacer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “hacer”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN