formados

Formados is a term in Portuguese that can function as both an adjective and a noun. As an adjective, it is the past participle of formar and means formed, shaped, or educated. In everyday usage it is often employed to describe people who have completed a course of study: os formados are graduates. In Brazilian Portuguese, the noun formados commonly refers to graduates, particularly of higher education, while the related term os formandos refers to the students who are about to graduate. The verb phrase formar-se is used to indicate the act of graduating, for example, formar-se em medicina means to graduate in medicine.

Etymology: Formados derives from formar, to shape or train; it shares its root with formação, meaning formation or education.

Usage notes: In formal writing formados can designate graduates; when the reference is to recent graduates, the phrase recém-formados (recently graduated) is common. In contexts where the audience speaks Spanish, formados is usually read as the past participle “formed” rather than as a label for graduates; the Spanish equivalents for graduates are graduados or egresados.

See also: formar, formação, formandos, graduado, graduados.

Examples: Os formados em engenharia encontram empregos com frequência. A cerimônia reuniu os formados da turma de 2020.