How to Pronounce 'Fazer': Portuguese (Brazil) Pronunciation Guide

Q: How do you pronounce fazer in Portuguese (Brazil)?

fazer is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /faˈzeh/. It means “to do / to make.” fah-ZEH, stress on the end. That z buzzes — it's spelled with a z and pronounced with one.

How do you pronounce "fazer" in Portuguese (Brazil)?

fah-ZEH, stress on the end. That z buzzes — it's spelled with a z and pronounced with one.

fazer /faˈzeh/

Ending in r means final-syllable stress by rule, so "-zer" takes it and no accent is written. The verb is wildly irregular in conjugation — "faço," "faz," "fiz," "farei" — and several of those forms move the stress or change the vowel entirely, so the infinitive's pattern doesn't predict much beyond itself.

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Sound it out

fa An ordinary f and an open "ah." It's unstressed but keeps its full vowel quality, so don't let it slump into "fuh" the way English would.

ze A genuinely voiced z with the vocal cords vibrating, then a closed e. This is the stressed syllable and where the word's energy sits.

r Routinely dropped altogether, leaving "fazê," which you'll hear far more often than the full form. The letter is on the page largely to mark the word as an infinitive.

Hear it in a sentence

O que você vai fazer hoje?

What are you going to do today?

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"O que você vai fazer hoje?" is built the Brazilian way, with "vai" plus an infinitive standing in for a future tense. "Hoje" is worth noticing: the h is silent, the j is a soft "zh" like the s in "measure," and the final e raises, giving "OH-zhee." The r of "fazer" then runs into that silent h as though the words were joined.

Where English speakers slip

Devoicing the z into an s — "fah-SEH" — is a common slip for English speakers, who are used to seeing z and s used loosely. Portuguese keeps them distinct. Spanish speakers face a harsher version of the same problem, since Spanish "hacer" has no z sound at all in most dialects. And the final r attracts the usual English curl, which should be flattened into breath.