The irregular verb “faire” means to do, or to make. It also has hundreds of other uses and meanings!
Here is its conjugation:
je fais nous faisons
tu fais vous faites
il/elle/on fait ils/elles font
In its regular meaning, you could use “faire” to talk about making food: “Je fais un gateau” = “I’m making a cake“.
When its used in the manner of “to do”, it can be talking about sports” “Je fais du vélo” = “I do biking” (or just “I bike”).
Faire has many idiomatic expressions, such as the following examples:
faire un voyage = to take a trip
faire la fête = to party
faire attention = to pay attention
It is also used with weather: il fait beau = it’s nice out
NOTE DE GRAMMAIRE –
The verb “Faire”
The verb “Faire” is an IRREGULAR verb! What does that mean? Here are it’s forms: Faire = to do / to make Je fais Nous faisonsTu fais Vous faites
Il/elle/on fait ils/elles font
Exs: Elle fait du jogging. à She goes/does jogging. Est-ce que vous faites du vélo? à Do you all go/do biking?
And, watch these great videos:
faire conjugation from imagiers.net
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students who came up with a cute faire conjugation song
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