hacer conjugation

Q: Is hacer the same as hacer vs. hacer?

Different question — hacer and hacer are the same verb. If you meant hacer versus hacer, they are identical. The common confusion is with hacer (to do) versus tomar (to take), which covers a lot of ground in Spanish: tomar café (to have coffee), tomar el autobús (to take the bus), tomar una decisión (to make a decision).

Q: How do you say 'to make' in Spanish?

Usually hacer: hacer una tortilla, hacer ejercicio. For furniture and buildings it's construir or fabricar, and for a meal you might use preparar. With food, Spanish tends toward hacer far more than English does toward "make".

Q: What is the difference between hice and hacía?

Hice is the preterite — one completed action (I did it, once). Hacía is the imperfect — ongoing or habitual (I used to do it, or I was doing it as something else happened). For hacer specifically, the imperfect also covers "I was making": La estaba haciendo (I was making it).

Updated October 23, 2026

Hacer is irregular in the present (hago, haces, hace) and the preterite (hice, hiciste, hizo), and regular elsewhere. It means "to do" or "to make", and it's also the verb for "to make" with food, for the weather (hace frío), and for "what are you doing" (¿qué haces?).

hacer changes in two places at once: the present drops the c (hago), and the past is built on a stem of its own (hice, hiciste, hizo).

Two separate changes to hold at once. This is one of the reasons hacer is worth learning early even though it's irregular.

hacer — to do, to make. Hago.

Present indicative

Pronoun	hacer	Say
yo	hago	AH-goh
tú	haces	AH-sehs
él / ella / usted	hace	AH-seh
nosotros	hacemos	ah-SEH-mohs
vosotros	hacéis	ah-SEH-ees
ellos / ellas / ustedes	hacen	AH-sehn

The -c drops: hago for haco. Same pattern as conocer → conozco, llegar → llego.

Preterite

Pronoun	hacer	Say
yo	hice	EE-seh
tú	hiciste	ee-SEES-teh
él / ella / usted	hizo	EE-soh
nosotros	hicimos	ee-SEE-mohs
vosotros	hicisteis	ee-sees-TAY-ees
ellos / ellas / ustedes	hicieron	ee-see-EH-rohn

Imperfect

Pronoun	hacer	Say
yo	hacía	ah-SEH-ee-ah
tú	hacías	ah-SEH-ee-ahs
él / ella / usted	hacía	ah-SEH-ee-ah
nosotros	hacíamos	ah-SEH-ee-ah-mohs
vosotros	hacíais	ah-SEH-ee-ah-ees
ellos / ellas / ustedes	hacían	ah-SEH-ee-ahn

Future, conditional and subjunctive

Pronoun	Future	Conditional	Pres. subj.	Imp. subj.
yo	haré	haría	haga	hiciera
tú	harás	harías	hagas	hicieras
él / ella / usted	hará	haría	haga	hiciera
nosotros	haremos	haríamos	hagamos	hiciéramos
vosotros	haréis	haríais	hagáis	hicierais
ellos / ellas / ustedes	harán	harían	hagan	hicieran

Imperative

Pronoun	Affirmative	Negative
tú	haz	no hagas
usted	haga	no haga
nosotros	hagamos	no hagamos
vosotros	haced	no hagáis
ustedes	hagan	no hagan

What else hacer does

Cooking. Hacer una tortilla (to make an omelette). Spanish uses hacer for most dishes — hacemos arroz.
Weather. Hace frío (it's cold), hace calor (it's hot), hace sol (it's sunny). Literally "it does cold".
'What are you doing?' ¿Qué haces? — the everyday greeting.
'What has happened?' ¿Qué ha pasado? and ¿Qué haces aquí?
'Make' with an adjective. Hacer caso (to pay attention), hacerexercise — hacer ejercicio (to exercise), hacer la cama (to make the bed). These are fixed phrases rather than productive patterns.
'Do' with a job. Hacer la compra (to do the shopping), hacer cuentas (to do the accounts).

Haz un favor — hace can also mean "it has been" for elapsed time: hace dos años (two years ago), hace mucho que no te veo (it's been a long time since I saw you).

Reading a word once is not remembering it. A verb you look up today is gone tomorrow. A verb that comes back to you — in a sentence you'd read anyway, on the day you'd have forgotten it — is yours.
No streak, no guilt. Kin tracks one number: how many words are in reach today. It goes down honestly when you drift and comes back when you return.

Questions

Is hacer the same as hacer vs. hacer?

Different question — hacer and hacer are the same verb. If you meant hacer versus hacer, they are identical. The common confusion is with hacer (to do) versus tomar (to take), which covers a lot of ground in Spanish: tomar café (to have coffee), tomar el autobús (to take the bus), tomar una decisión (to make a decision).

How do you say 'to make' in Spanish?

Usually hacer: hacer una tortilla, hacer ejercicio. For furniture and buildings it's construir or fabricar, and for a meal you might use preparar. With food, Spanish tends toward hacer far more than English does toward "make".

What is the difference between hice and hacía?

Hice is the preterite — one completed action (I did it, once). Hacía is the imperfect — ongoing or habitual (I used to do it, or I was doing it as something else happened). For hacer specifically, the imperfect also covers "I was making": La estaba haciendo (I was making it).

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