interferir
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.teʁ.feˈɾi(ʁ)/
interferir is spelled I-N-T-E-R-F-E-R-I-R (10 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,632nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Interferir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to interfere (to get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “exercer influência em”.
What does interferir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to interfere (to get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance)
Não quero interferir na tua vida pessoal.
- 2
to interfere (to overlap another wave)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. exercer influência em 2. exercer interferência; atrapalhar 3. interceder 4. atrapalhar, exercer influência negativa
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of interferir
- interfiro first-person present singular
- interfere present singular third-person
- interferi first-person preterite singular
- interferido participle past
- i-e alternation
- interferires infinitive second-person singular
- interferirmos first-person infinitive plural
- interferirdes infinitive plural second-person
- interferirem infinitive plural third-person
- interferindo gerund
- interferidos masculine participle past
- interferida feminine participle past
- interferidas feminine participle past
- interferes indicative present second-person
- interferimos first-person indicative plural
- interferis indicative plural present
- interferem indicative plural present
- interferia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce interferir?
- Brazil /ĩ.teʁ.feˈɾi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.teh.feˈɾi(h)]
- /ĩ.teɾ.feˈɾi(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is interferir in Portuguese?
interferir appears 6.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).