familiarize

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• familiarise (non-Oxford British spelling)

EtymologyEdit

familiar +‎ -ize

VerbEdit

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

1. To make, or become familiar with something or someone.

Related termsEdit

• familiarization

TranslationsEdit

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)
• German: sich bekanntmachen
• Ido: familiigar
• 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: conocer (es) familiarizar (es)

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PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

familiarize

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