familiarize

English

Alternative forms

• familiarise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

familiar +‎ -ize

Verb

familiarize (third-person singular simple present familiarizes, present participle familiarizing, simple past and past participle familiarized) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become familiar with something or someone.

Related terms

• familiarization

Translations

make or become familiar with something or someone

• Bulgarian: запознавам (zapoznavam), популяризирам (bg) (populjariziram)
• Catalan: familiaritzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使熟悉 (shǐ shúxī)

• Finnish: tutustuttaa (fi), perehdyttää (fi), totuttaa (fi) (make familiar); tutustua (fi), perehtyä (fi), tottua (fi) (become familiar)
• French: familiariser (fr)
• Galician: familiarizar

• German: sich bekanntmachen
• Ido: familiigar
• Italian: familiarizzare
• Portuguese: familiarizar (pt)
• Russian: (become familiar) знако́миться (ru) impf (znakómitʹsja), познако́миться (ru) pf (poznakómitʹsja), ознако́миться (ru) pf (oznakómitʹsja); (make familiar) знако́мить (ru) impf (znakómitʹ), познако́мить (ru) pf (poznakómitʹ), ознако́мить (ru) pf (oznakómitʹ)
• Spanish: familiarizar (es)

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Portuguese

Verb

familiarize

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of familiarizar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of familiarizar
3. third-person singular imperative of familiarizar