In portuguese, talking about what you did is simple.
There are no do's and did's like in English.
What did you do?
Brazilians use the verb FAZER.
Eu fiz ontem. ➜ I did it yesterday.
What did you do yesterday? > O que você fez ontem?
Como você fez isso? ➜ How did you do that?
Você fez seu deve de casa? ➜ Did you do your homework?
Let the verb FAZER 'do' all the doing.
FAZER in Portuguese is very irregular. Here it is in the in the "simple past" (the preterit tense) along with close cousins TER & DIZER:
simple past tense: ter, dizer, fazer
Some popular irregular verbs in the simple past tense.
to have | ter | ||
I had | eu t | ive | |
you/he/she had | você/ele/ela t | eve |
to say, tell | dizer | ||
I said | eu diss | e | |
you/he/she said | você/ele/ela diss | e |
to make, do | fazer | ||
I did | eu f | iz | |
you/he/she did | você/ele/ela f | ez |
* More accurately called, the preterit indicative tense.
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