perehdytä

Perehdytä is a Finnish verb meaning to acquaint someone with something by providing essential information, instructions, or orientation. It is commonly used in work and educational contexts to brief or train a person on procedures, policies, or a new environment. The action often involves explaining how systems work, outlining safety rules, introducing responsibilities, or guiding someone through new routines.

The related noun is perehdytys, which denotes an orientation, briefing, or onboarding process. Perehdytys can refer to a single introductory briefing or to a longer onboarding program. Phrases built from the verb describe the act of briefing someone to a task, a workplace, or a process, such as perehdyttää työtehtäviin or perehdyttää työpaikkaan.

In usage, perehdyttää is transitive: the subject carries out the briefing, and the person being briefed is the direct object (for example, Esimies perehdyttää uudet työntekijät). It differs from broader teaching (kouluttaa) in that perehdytys emphasizes familiarization with a specific environment, rules, and procedures rather than general knowledge.

The imperative form is perehdyytä, used to instruct someone to brief or acquaint. Other moods and tenses follow standard Finnish conjugation patterns for transitive verbs.

See also: onboarding, orientation, training, instruction, koulutus, ohjeistus.