la palabra "hagas"

Question

Tengo una pregunta. I'm learning about the word "hagas" and i can't find out where it comes from. Is it a conjugation of the word "hacer"? And what are the most common uses for it. Muchas gracias!

Answer 1

Yep, it's the present tense of the verb "hacer" (to do/to make) for first and third person singular, but in the subjunctive mood. It's used when you aren't using the indicative mood, which is the most common way we use verbs:

• Yo lo hago/I'm doing it. <--indicative mood, the action of doing is happening
• Espero que tú lo hagas/I hope you do it. <---the action of doing isn't necessarily happening, but we are talking about how we are feeling about the action happening.

We have it, too, in English, though to a lesser extent than Spanish, where it's used widely in a variety of situations not common in English.

But consider this sentence: It's important that you be on time. "You be" is obviously not the way we typically conjugate "to be" in the second person singular. "You are" is indicative, and "you be" is subjunctive.

In Spanish: Es importante que seas puntual

"Seas" is the subjunctive mood for the second person present tense of the verb "ser". Indicative mood in the second person present tense, as you probably already know, is "es".

The subjunctive mood is far more complicated than that, but my sense is you're not quite familiar with it yet, so I'll leave it at that.

Hacer
Present tense, indicative mood:

Yo hago
Tú haces
Él/Ella hace
Nosotros hacemos
Vosotros hacéis
Ellos/Ellas hacen

Present tense, subjunctive mood:
(que) Yo haga
(que) Tú hagas
(que) Él/Ella haga
(que) Nosotros hagamos
(que) Vosotros hagais
(que) Ellos/Ellas hagan

Answer 2

Yes, it is from hacer. With the S, it's obviously a 2nd person singular informal (tú) form. Shows up in negative commands and the subjunctive.

Look at Hacer in the conjugate tab and the dictionary, and you´ll find it plenty.

Sugiero que eso hagas y entonces vas a aprender mucho. Buena suerte