61: Hacer - "to do" or "to make"
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Spanish verb Hacer means both "to do" and "to make". Let's practice its present-tense forms, hago, hace, haces, hacen, and hacemos, as well as the unconjugated forms. We'll also practice Hacerse, which roughly means "to become".
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| 0:00.0 | This is how it's done. Let's do it. |
| 0:05.8 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. |
| 0:16.3 | Starting this week, we're following a new weekly format on the podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Every week, we're going to spend weekly format on the podcast. Every week we're going to spend |
| 0:21.7 | Monday and Tuesday learning a new verb. Then we have the rest of the week to learn other language |
| 0:27.9 | elements, including a few new nouns to add to our vocabulary every Thursday. For today and |
| 0:35.0 | tomorrow, we're going to focus on the verb, a CER, which means to make or to do. |
| 0:40.3 | We've already learned the infinitive, |
| 0:43.3 | the participle, |
| 0:46.3 | etcho, and the gerund, |
| 0:48.3 | asieno. |
| 0:50.3 | Today we're going to learn the present tense forms |
| 0:53.3 | and explore some of the interesting ways this verb can be used. |
| 0:57.0 | We're actually not going to use a memory palace to work on this verb because its conjugations pretty easily follow some of the patterns we've previously learned for other verbs. |
| 1:07.0 | The present tense follows a pattern similar to that of |
| 1:10.9 | Tener. For example, the first person, the word for I do, |
| 1:17.3 | has an extra inexplicable G in it. So just like I have is |
| 1:23.8 | Tengo. I do is ag go. For example, I do it every day. |
| 1:36.4 | The rest of the forms are more regular. To begin with, the third person singular, the word for he, she, or it does, is |
| 1:48.6 | acé. It's like the infinitive, acer, but with the r removed from the end, and with the stress on the first syllable instead of the second syllable. |
| 2:00.1 | Ase. Let's practice these two forms a bit. |
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