italiano · A1 · verb · 4 minutes
Fare: present tense
Use facc-/fai/fa patterns in everyday activity expressions.
Understand the choice
Fare appears in weather, chores, study, and routine phrases. Learn fare colazione, fare sport, fare la spesa, fare una domanda, and fare caldo as complete units.
Core rule: Fare is irregular: faccio, fai, fa, facciamo, fate, fanno.
Notice it in context
Faccio colazione, ma i bambini fanno già sport.
I have breakfast, but the children are already exercising.
Faccio agrees with omitted io; fanno with plural bambini; both nouns form fixed fare expressions.
Che cosa fate nel fine settimana?
What do you do at the weekend?
Fate agrees with voi in the question.
Mia madre fa la spesa e noi facciamo una torta.
My mother shops and we make a cake.
Fa and facciamo show two stems in useful phrases.
What to remember
- Fa has no accent; fà is incorrect in modern standard spelling.
- Fatto is the irregular past participle.
Common trap: Do not use fare for becoming: diventare or diventare + adjective handles become.