"Faça o que eu digo, não faça o que faço."

Translation: Do what I say, not what I do.

[ixtoh]

"Do as I say, do not do as I do" is technically, word by word, more accurate than the definition given by Duolingo. It was not accepted.

[deactivated user]

Actually I think the English translation "do as I say, not as I do" is perfectly correct, but I wonder why it is marked as incorrect when the second personal pronoun "eu" is included...?

[Kunstkritik]

Do as I say, don't do what I do. Is not accepted. oh well

[Lexflex]

It's accepted now

[Cede1945]

What is wrong with "Do what I say, do not what I do"?
"Do what I say, not what I do" is accepted.

[Scutigera]

There is a missing "do" in yours. It needs to be, "...do not do what I do", which, in the end is a bit of an awkward mouthful.

And the idiom in English is almost as standard as the one in Portuguese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_as_I_say_and_not_as_I_do

Using "what" instead of "as" is a popular modern alternative (and happens to be almost exactly the translation of the Portuguese on top of it).

[GrannySlasher]

Why is it "digo" instead 'dizer', and "faço" instead of 'fazer'?

[Paulenrique]

Because this is a true statement in present tense. If you used future tense, that would be:

"Faça o que eu disser, não faça o que eu fizer".

Anyway, this is a fixed expression: Faço o que eu digo, (mas) não faça o que eu faço.

[sue64584.]

Faça o que eu digo, não faça o que faço. - Do as I say, do not do what I do.

[duofus]

I did not understand the structure. Need some help :)

[Danmoller]

Faça = imperative
o que = what
eu digo = I say
eu faço = I do

Literally: "Do what I say, but don't do what I do"

[JohnGrunewald]

I actually had this right, but Duo didn't like my exact definition. First I typed in the English idiom and then changed it to the literal translation (as you have above), which apparently was wrong. I will report it.

[Paulenrique]

This is a common saying in Portuguese:

• "faça o que eu digo, mas não faça o que eu faço"

But the literal translation from English is "faça como eu digo, não como eu faço".

[duofus]

Oh. Thanks a lot. Still learning :)

[eglimp]

not getting the structure either, why is this 'faça' and not 'faz' ?

[Paulenrique]

Faz is also right, it is imperative too. But as it is an expression, it has fixed words, so we use only faça most of the time.

[eglimp]

Thanks... so the imperative is conjugated according to number of people? venha/vem for instance? and -os for 'let's --' ??

[Paulenrique]

Exactly. Venha/vem are the same since they are the conjugations for tu and você (referring to the second person). But there are the plural form too.

Let's + verb = vamos + infinitive.

[eglimp]

Muito obrigada - lentamente, vejo a luz.... (??)

[antlane]

TU- indicative present: eu venho, tu vens... vens - s = vem -imperative: Vem tu; // VOCÊ - subjuntive present: talvez eu venha, talvez tu venhas, talvez ele/você venha - imperative: venha você.

[KrisKalis]

It marked me correct even though I omitted the second faca - Faca o que eu digo, nao o que faco.....is it okay to drop the faca in the second part of the sentence?