Faço a repetição devagar.

Faço is the 1st person singular present tense of fazer, so it means I do or I make.

In this sentence, faço is being used in the sense of I do / I make / I perform the repetition.

A useful thing to notice:

• fazer = to do / to make
• eu faço = I do / I make

Also, the spelling matters: the ç in faço keeps the s sound before o.

Because fazer is an irregular verb.

Its present-tense forms are:

• eu faço
• você faz
• ele/ela faz
• nós fazemos
• vocês fazem
• eles/elas fazem

So eu faço is just the correct irregular form. You cannot form it by simply replacing the ending of fazer in a regular way.

The a is the definite article meaning the.

So:

• a repetição = the repetition

In Portuguese, articles are often used in places where English might leave them out. Here, a repetição sounds more natural than just repetição.

So even if English might say something like I repeat it slowly or I do the repetition slowly, Portuguese often keeps the article with the noun:

• Faço a repetição...

Repetição literally means repetition.

In context, it refers to the act of repeating something. For example, in a classroom or language-learning setting, it could mean repeating a word, phrase, or sentence.

A native English speaker may expect a verb like repeat, but Portuguese is using a noun here:

• faço a repetição = I do the repetition

That said, in everyday Brazilian Portuguese, people might often prefer a more direct verb-based sentence such as:

• Repito devagar. = I repeat slowly.
• Vou repetir devagar. = I’m going to repeat slowly.

So Faço a repetição devagar is understandable, but depending on context it may sound a bit formal or less common than those alternatives.

It is grammatically correct and understandable, but it may sound a little formal, instructional, or context-specific.

In natural spoken Brazilian Portuguese, people often prefer:

• Repito devagar.
• Vou repetir devagar.
• Eu repito devagar.

So if this is from a teaching or instructional context, Faço a repetição devagar makes sense. But in ordinary conversation, many speakers would probably choose a simpler verb form instead of fazer + a repetição.

Devagar means slowly, and it is an adverb here.

In Portuguese, adverbs often come after the verb or after the verb phrase:

• Faço a repetição devagar.

That word order sounds natural.

You can sometimes move adverbs around for emphasis, but the version with devagar at the end is the most straightforward and natural here.

Compare:

• Faço a repetição devagar. = natural
• Devagar, faço a repetição. = possible, but more marked or emphatic
• Faço devagar a repetição. = less natural in this case

No. Devagar is an adverb, so it does not change.

It stays the same no matter who is doing the action:

• Eu faço devagar
• Ela faz devagar
• Nós fazemos devagar

Unlike adjectives, adverbs do not agree with masculine/feminine or singular/plural nouns.

Yes, absolutely.

Portuguese often drops the subject pronoun because the verb ending already shows the subject:

• Faço already tells us it means I do

So both are correct:

• Faço a repetição devagar.
• Eu faço a repetição devagar.

The version without eu is usually more natural unless you want emphasis or contrast:

• Eu faço a repetição devagar, mas ele faz rápido.

In Brazilian Portuguese, faço is pronounced approximately like FAH-soo, with the stress on the first syllable.

A rough guide:

• fa = like fa in father
• ço = like so, because ç sounds like s

So:

• faço ≈ FAH-so

The important detail is that ç gives an s sound, not a k sound.

Repetição is pronounced approximately heh-peh-chee-SOWN in Brazilian Portuguese, though the exact sound depends on accent.

A few key points:

• The stress is on the last syllable: -ção
• ti before a vowel often sounds like chee in many Brazilian accents
• -ão is a nasal sound, not a normal English ow

So a rough pronunciation guide is:

• re-pe-ti-ÇÃO
• approximately heh-peh-chee-SOWN

You do not pronounce the final o separately in -ção. It is one nasal ending.

In this sentence, devagar clearly means slowly, because it is modifying the action faço.

So here it is an adverb:

• Faço a repetição devagar. = I do the repetition slowly.

English distinguishes clearly between slow and slowly, but Portuguese often uses words differently from English. In this sentence, the translation should definitely be the adverb slowly.

You can, but it may sound less natural.

A word-for-word translation is:

• Faço = I do / I make
• a repetição = the repetition
• devagar = slowly

So literally:

• I do the repetition slowly

That is understandable, but depending on context, more natural English might be:

• I repeat it slowly
• I’ll repeat it slowly
• I do the repetition slowly

This is a good example of how Portuguese and English may express the same idea in different ways.