Desempeñado

Desempeñado is the past participle of the Spanish verb desempeñar. It is used both as an adjective and as a participial form in verbal tenses, describing something that has been carried out or someone who has held a particular function or role.

As an adjective, desempeñado quality indicates that an action has been performed or a task has been fulfilled. It is commonly found in expressions such as funciones desempeñadas or tareas desempeñadas, referring to the duties or tasks that have been carried out. When referring to a person, it can describe the roles or positions that someone has held, for example cargo desempeñado or funciones desempeñadas, often seen in résumés, biographical notes, or formal reports. The word agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (cargo desempeñado, funciones desempeñadas, cargos desempeñados).

In verb forms, desempenar appears in compound tenses with haber (ha desempeñado, habían desempeñado, etc.), indicating that the action of performing or carrying out has occurred. It can also occur in passive constructions, though in everyday use it more frequently serves attributively to define a held position or completed duties.

Etymology traces to the verb desempeñar, formed with the prefixed des- and the root empeñar/empeñar, with the sense of carrying out, fulfilling, or performing rather than pawn or pledge senses associated with related words. Desempeñado is distinct from cognates related to "empeñar" in those other meanings.

In summary, desempeñado conveys that duties have been carried out or a role has been held, and it adapts to gender and number to modify nouns or to form parts of perfect tenses.