intervenir

to interveneirregular-ir verb
Where it breaks the pattern
  • intervenir follows venir: irregular first-person form
  • intervenir follows venir: e → ie when the stem is stressed
  • intervenir follows venir: irregular preterite stem; the 1s and 3s endings are unstressed, so they carry no written accent
  • intervenir follows venir: irregular future stem; the endings themselves are regular
  • intervenir follows venir: conditional shares the irregular future stem
  • intervenir follows venir: present subjunctive is built from the irregular yo form
  • intervenir follows venir: imperfect subjunctive is built from the third-person preterite stem
  • e → i outside the present, where the stem is unstressed

Indicativo: intervenir conjugation

PresentePretéritoImperfectoFuturoCondicional
yointervengointervineinterveníaintervendréintervendría
intervienesintervinisteinterveníasintervendrásintervendrías
él / ella / Ud.intervieneintervinointerveníaintervendráintervendría
nosotrosintervenimosintervinimosinterveníamosintervendremosintervendríamos
vosotrosintervenísintervinisteisinterveníaisintervendréisintervendríais
ellos / Uds.intervienenintervinieroninterveníanintervendránintervendrían

Participio: intervenido · Gerundio: interviniendo

irregular form

In use

Real sentences with the conjugated form highlighted, from Tatoeba, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR.

  • Tom intervino en la disputa de sus colegas.

    Tom intervened in his coworkers' disagreement.

  • Tal vez los ancianos de la villa intervengan para reconciliarlos.

    Maybe the village elders will intervene to reconcile them.

  • El árbitro de hockey intervino para parar la pelea.

    The hockey referee intervened to stop the fight.

Built on venir

These verbs are venir with a prefix, and they inherit its irregular forms.