presentados

Presentados is the masculine plural past participle of the Spanish verb presentar. In grammar, it is used as an adjective or as part of verb phrases in which something has been presented, introduced, or submitted. It agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number (for example, documentos presentados, pruebas presentadas, personas presentadas).

As an adjective, presentados indicates that items or people have already been shown or submitted in a given context. It is common in legal, academic, administrative, and media language, where documents, evidences, or guests are described as presentados. In passive constructions, the past participle can also appear as presentados: Las pruebas fueron presentados is not correct; the correct form for feminine or masculine nouns in passive voice would be Las pruebas fueron presentadas or Los documentos fueron presentados, depending on gender.

Presentados also occurs in credits and event programming with the meaning “presented by” to indicate authorship or sponsorship, as in un programa presentado por una cadena de televisión.

The phrase Los presentados can function as a nominal group referring to the people who have been presented, introduced, or submitted in a particular setting, though it is less common than using explicit nouns.

Etymology comes from Latin praesentatus, from praesentare, meaning to bring forward or show. Related forms include presentar (to present), presentación (presentation), and presentador (presenter).

See also: presentar, presentación, presentador, presentación de pruebas.