tomados

Tomados is the masculine plural form of the Spanish past participle tom ado, from the verb tomar (to take, to drink). As an adjective it means “taken” or “taken away” and agrees in gender and number with the noun it describes (for example, los acuerdos tomados, los libros tomados). It also appears in passive constructions to indicate that the subject has undergone the action of taking.

The most common uses are found in phrases that denote completed actions or decisions. Examples include acciones tomadas, medidas tomadas, and acuerdos tomados, all referring to items or decisions that have been made or implemented. In passive sentences the participle can appear as fue/son tomados (e.g., Los libros fueron tomados de la biblioteca).

A notable idiomatic usage is tomar por sorpresa, as in fuer on tomados por sorpresa, meaning “taken by surprise.” In this sense tomados conveys a figurative rather than a physical taking.

In addition, tom ado can also relate to consumption in some contexts, especially in compound expressions involving drinking, but the masculine plural tomados is rarely used to describe people being intoxicated in standard language; more common adjectives in those cases are borrachos or bebidos, with tomada being more typical in other contexts.

Etymology traces tom ar back to tomar, which means to take or to drink; tom ado is the participial form used to express a completed action or a state resulting from that action. The feminine plural form is tomadas, used with feminine nouns (por ejemplo, las decisiones tomadas).