hiciste
/iθiste/from spelling rules
hiciste is the Spanish way to say "you did" or "you made".
This word is used to describe an action that a single person completed in the past.
Which one should you use?
hiciste is used for completed actions in the past, whereas hicieras would be the imperfect subjunctive form.
How does it change in a sentence?
hiciste is the preterite indicative second-person singular form of the verb hacer.
How do you pronounce it?
/iθiste/
What mistakes should you avoid?
English speakers often mistakenly add an 's' to the end of the word (hicistes), but the correct form is hiciste.
Did you know?
- In Spanish, the phrase no hacer caso means to ignore someone, so no hiciste caso means 'you didn't listen' rather than 'you didn't make a case'.
- Spanish uses hacer to describe how long something has lasted, such as hace dos años, which translates literally as 'it makes two years'.
- The root word hacer shares a distant linguistic ancestor with the English word 'do', but it is more closely related to the Latin word facere, which is where English gets 'factory' and 'facility'.
Examples in context
- ¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana pasado?What did you do last weekend?
- ¿Qué hiciste ayer por la tarde?What did you do yesterday afternoon?
- No sé qué hiciste para arreglarlo.I don't know what you did to fix it.
- Hiciste un buen trabajo en la escuela.You did a good job at school.
Example conversation
Daniel and Elena are talking about a project at work.
- Elena¿Qué hiciste con el informe final?What did you do with the final report?
- DanielLo terminé y lo envié por correo.I finished it and sent it by email.
- ElenaMuy bien, Daniel, hiciste lo correcto.Very well, Daniel, you did the right thing.
- DanielGracias, Elena, me esforcé mucho.Thanks, Elena, I worked very hard.
Sources
- IPA marked “from spelling rules” is derived from standard Spanish spelling, where Wiktionary gives none.
