**Translation:** "I always pretend to be happy."

- **Siempre**: "always."
- **me**: reflexive pronoun "myself." (shows the action is done to oneself)
- **hago**: "I make / I do." From the verb *hacer*.
- **el**: literally "the," but here it introduces an adjective in the idiom *hacerse el ___*.
- **contento**: "happy" or "cheerful."

*Hacerse el + adjective* is a common Spanish idiom meaning "to act/pretend to be [adjective]." So, "me hago el contento" conveys that the speaker is putting on a happy face even if they don’t truly feel that way.

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