English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] familiar -ize
familiarize (third-person singular simple present familiarizes present participle familiarizing simple past and past participle familiarized ( North American and Oxford British spelling )
( transitive , intransitive ) familiar with something or someone.Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] make or become familiar with something or someone
Bulgarian: запознавам (bg) ( 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
Ingrian: aatuttaa
Italian: familiarizzare (it)
Malayalam: പരിചയപ്പെടുക ( paricayappeṭuka ) ( intransitive ) , പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുക ( paricayappeṭuttuka ) ( transitive )
Maori: whakawaia
Occitan: familiarizar (oc)
Old English: ġehīwcūþlīcian
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)
Portuguese [ edit ] familiarize
inflection of familiarizar
first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative