Portuguese

Verb

interferir ‎(first-person singular present indicative interfiro, past participle interferido)

1. to interfere (to get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance)

   Não quero interferir na tua vida pessoal.‎

   I don't want to interfere with your personal life.

2. (physics, of a wave) to interfere (to overlap another wave)
3. to prevent something from being done as well as it could be

   A diferença de línguas interferiu nosso entendimento.‎

   The language difference prevented us from understanding one another.

   Suas preocupações o interferem em seu trabalho.‎

   His worries interfered with his job.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to involve oneself, causing disturbance): intrometer-se

Related terms

Spanish

Verb

interferir ‎(first-person singular present interfiero, first-person singular preterite interferí, past participle interferido)

1. to interfere

Conjugation

• Rule: e becomes a ie in stressed syllables and i in certain conjugations.