Saiba as diferenças entre make e do
Os usos do verbo make e do verbo causam muitas dúvidas em alunos de todas as idades. Você saberia quals as diferenças entre make e do?
Veja aqui as principais formas de usar cada um desses verbos e tire suas dúvidas.
Uma das grandes dúvidas de alunos brasileiros que estão tentanto aprender inglês é o uso correto desses verbos e as diferenças entre make e do, já que, no português, o significado de ambos costuma ser aproximado ao verbo “fazer”. Mas, na língua inglesa, cada uma dessas palavras tem aplicações e usos próprios.
Quando usar make
O verbo make é usado quando algo é criado, produzido ou construído e para ações que você escolhe realizar. Isso é, a ênfase é no resultado ou produto de uma ação. Alguns exemplos:
- She made a pie (Ela fez uma torta)
- I’ve made some coffee (Eu fiz um pouco de café)
- Did you really make those socks? (Você fez mesmo essas meias?)
Quando usar do
O verbo do é usado para atividades em geral, ações, obrigações e tarefas repetitivas. Aqui, o foco é no processo de agir ou realizar algo. Também é geralmente usado com palavras como nothing, anything, something ou everything. Por exemplo:
- What did you do this weekend? (O que você fez esse final de semana?)
- I didn’t do anything on Sunday (Não fiz nada no domingo)
- He’s tired of doing everything himself (Ele está cansado de fazer tudo sozinho)
- Are you doing anything interesting this weekend? (Você vai fazer algo interessante este final de semana?)
Os dois exemplos exemplos a seguir (retirados do Dicionário Cambridge) deixam mais claro quando usar um ou o outro verbo, empregando ambos numa mesma frase para introduzir ideias diferentes:
- When I was doing [ação] the calculations, I made [resultado] two mistakes. (Quando estava fazendo os cálculos, cometi dois erros)
- I did [ação] some work last summer; I made [resultado] a pond in her garden. (Eu fiz uns trabalhos no último verão; fiz um lago no jardim dela)
Substantivos mais usados com cada verbo
Alguns substantivos (nouns) são combinados com mais frequência com um ou com outro dos dois verbos. Veja a seguir:
Mais usados com make
apology |
coffee |
excuse |
love |
offer |
remark |
assumption |
comment |
friends |
lunch |
phone call |
sound |
bed |
complaint |
guess |
mess |
plan |
soup |
breakfast |
dinner |
law |
mistake |
profit |
speech |
cake |
effort |
list |
money |
progress |
statement |
change |
error |
loss |
noise |
promise |
tea |
Mais usados com do
activity |
damage |
favor |
job |
task |
business |
drawing |
gardening |
laundry |
test |
cleaning |
duty |
harm |
one’s best |
washing (up) |
cooking |
exam(ination) |
homework |
painting |
work |
course |
exercise |
ironing |
shopping |
Expressões com make e do
Além dos substantivos, há muitas expressões que são sempre faladas ou escritas com make ou com do, obrigatoriamente. Infelizmente, não existem regras claras para definir qual dos verbos usar, então é preciso decorá-las. Veja as listas abaixo:
Verbo Make:


amends | How can I make amends? |
an appointment | She made an appointment with the dentist. |
arrangements | Let’s make some arrangements. |
an attempt | Let’s at make an attempt to be on time. |
believe | Their favourite game is to make believe that they are kings and queens. |
certain | I think the restaurant opens at six, but let’s make certain. |
a change | I’ve made some changes. |
a choice | You need to make a choice. |
a comment | She made a comment about my shirt. |
a complaint | He made a complaint to the manager. |
a confession | I’d like to make a confession. |
a date | What if we make a date for next week? |
a decision | I’ve made my decision. |
a difference | Exercising really made a difference. |
a discovery | He made a discovery. |
an effort | Make an effort! |
an error | He made an error on the report. |
your escape | The robbers made their escape. |
an exception | I made an exception to them today. |
an excuse | Did he make an excuse? |
a face | The child made a face. |
a fire | We made a fire and had a hot drink. |
a fool of yourself | You’ll make a fool of yourself. |
a fortune | She made a fortune when she sold her company. |
friends | She made lots of friends. |
fun of | They love to make fun of the teacher. |
a fuss | Don’t make a fuss! |
an impression | She certainly made an impression! |
a joke | He made a joke. |
a list | I must make a list. |
a loss | Their business made a loss. |
love | The hero and the heroine made love. |
a mess | What a mess he made! |
a mistake | She made so many mistakes. |
money | He made a lot of money. |
a move | Let’s make a move. |
a noise | Try not to make a noise. |
an observation | Could I make an observation? |
an offer | She made an offer on a painting. |
a payment | I’d like to make a credit card payment. |
a phone call | I’m going to make a phone call. |
plans | He is making plans to move to London. |
a point | He used examples to make his point. |
a prediction | He made a prediction. |
a profit | His business made a profit. |
progress | We’re making some progress! |
a promise | I made a promise to my father. |
a remark | The boss made a remark about his work. |
a reservation | Could you make a reservation for tonight? |
a scene | She made a scene in the café. |
a sound | Don’t make a sound! |
a suggestion | Can I make a suggestion? |
sure | Go and make sure. |
the bed | Make the bed before you leave. |
time (= achar tempo para fazer algo) | You need to make time to study. |
trouble | That man is trying to make trouble. |
a visit | I need to make a visit to my aunt. |
your mind up | Make your mind up quickly! |
your way | He made his way to a café. |
Verbo Do:
30 mph (miles per hour) | Many people do more than 30 mph on this road. |
badly | She did very badly on the exam. |
your best | Don’t worry, just do your best. |
business | It’s been a pleasure doing business with you. |
chores | I have to go home and do some chores. |
a course | John has decided to do a course in writing. |
damage | The storm has done a lot of damage to the house. |
the dishes / the washing up | I really hate doing the dishes. |
a drawing | The little boy spent hours doing a drawing. |
your duty | He has to do his duty. |
an exam | I have to do three exams. |
exercise | Julie likes doing exercise. |
an exercise | The teacher asked us to do a lot of grammar exercises. |
someone a favour | My friend did me a huge favour. |
the gardening | David often spends Sunday doing gardening. |
good | She tries to do good. |
you good | You should eat vegetables. They’ll do you good! |
your hair | She spends ages doing her hair. |
harm | It did more harm than good. |
homework | Have you finished doing your homework? |
housework | Let’s do the housework quickly. |
the ironing | She does the ironing. |
a job | I think the students did a great job. |
the laundry / the washing | He did the laundry. |
your nails | She likes to do her nails each week. |
a painting | There was an old man doing a painting. |
paperwork | Does everybody hate doing paperwork? |
research | I’m doing some research. |
the shopping | I’ll do the shopping tomorrow. |
time (= estar na cadeia) | He’s doing time. |
well | My brother is doing well in his new job. |
work | Peter does a lot of work at the weekends. |
your worst | Rain, do your worst! |
Você já sabia como e quando usar o verbo make e o verbo do? E as principais expressões com cada um deles, já conhecia? Pode parecer difícil a princípio, mas é só estudar com atenção para o uso desses verbos se tornar mais natural.
E se você tiver dúvidas em outros tópicos da gramática inglesa, como o uso de will e going to ou can e may, ou sobre os advérbios em inglês, leia os outros artigos do nosso blog e acompanhe nossas postagens.