No facis trampes.

Do not cheat.

Breakdown of No facis trampes.

• no: not
• fer trampes: to cheat

Questions & Answers about No facis trampes.

Why is it facis and not fes?

Because Catalan uses the present subjunctive for the negative imperative.

So with the verb fer:

• Fes trampes. = affirmative command to tu
• No facis trampes. = negative command to tu

This is a very common pattern in Catalan:

• Parla → No parlis
• Menja → No mengis
• Fes → No facis

So No fes trampes is not correct standard Catalan.

What verb does facis come from?

It comes from the irregular verb fer, which means to do or to make.

Facis is the present subjunctive, 2nd person singular form, used here because the sentence is a negative command addressed to tu.

A few useful forms of fer are:

• fas = you do
• fes = do!
• facis = that you do / used in don’t do

So in No facis trampes, facis literally means something like you do, but in the structure of a negative command it means don’t do.