Familiarizados

Familiarizados is the masculine plural past participle of the Spanish verb familiarizar, used as an adjective or in passive constructions to indicate that someone or something has become acquainted with a subject, process, or system. The feminine plural form is familiarizadas, and the related noun form for the process is familiarización.

In usage, familiarizados typically follows a form of the verb estar or ser and is combined with a prepositional phrase such as con to specify what one is familiar with: por ejemplo, estar familiarizados con un software. It can describe people or groups, as in los empleados están familiarizados con el procedimiento. The adjective is normally used in masculine plural agreements when referring to a male-dominated or mixed group; for individual description, the form can vary to match gender and number.

Familiarizados appear across domains like education, training, workplace onboarding, user experience, and research to signal varying levels of adaptation or knowledge. The related noun familiarización denotes the process of becoming familiar with something, and a phase of familiarización may form part of onboarding, acclimatization, or training programs.

Etymology and related forms: the word comes from the verb familiarizar, from the adjective familiar (related to familiarity) with the suffix -izar, and ultimately from Latin familiaris. The distinction between familiarizados and familiarización helps differentiate a state of familiarity (adjective) from the process of achieving it (noun).

Examples:

- Los nuevos empleados están ya familiarizados con las políticas de la empresa.

- Los usuarios familiarizados con la interfaz pueden completar la tarea con mayor rapidez.