intern

English

Alternative forms

• interne (archaic)

Etymology 1

From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2

Noun

intern (plural interns)

1. A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɝn/
• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɜːn/

Verb

intern (third-person singular simple present interns, present participle interning, simple past and past participle interned)

1. (transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.

   The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

   1. (of a state, especially a neutral state) To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.

      The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.

2. (transitive, programming) To internalize.
   • 2004, Mark Schmidt, ‎Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook (page 81)

     Strings are automatically interned if they are assigned to a literal string within code.

Derived terms

• internment
• internee

Translations

to imprison (transitive)

• Bulgarian: интернирам (bg) (interniram)
• Dutch: interneren (nl)
• Finnish: internoida (fi)
• French: interner (fr)
• German: internieren (de)
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• Irish: imtheorannaigh
• Italian: internare (it)
• Japanese: 抑留する (ja) (yokuryū suru), 拘留する (ja) (kōryū suru)
• Swedish: internera (sv)

to work as an intern (intransitive)

• Finnish: työharjoitella, harjoitella (fi)
• Japanese: インターンとして働く (intān to shite hataraku)
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• Russian: проходи́ть пра́ктику/стажиро́вку impf (proxodítʹ práktiku/stažiróvku), пройти́ пра́ктику/стажиро́вку pf (projtí práktiku/stažiróvku)
• Spanish: pasante m

Adjective

intern (comparative more intern, superlative most intern)

1. (archaic) Internal.

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Etymology 2

From French interne 'inner, internal', from Latin internus "within, internal", from inter "between"; compare etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɝn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɜːn/

Noun

intern (plural interns)

1. A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
2. A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training

Derived terms

• internship

Related terms

• resident
• trainee

Translations

student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field

• Arabic: مُتَدَرِّب m (mutadarrib)
• Armenian: պրակտիկանտ (hy) (praktikant), փորձնակ (hy) (pʻorjnak), ինթերն (intʻern)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實習生／实习生 (zh) (shíxíshēng), 实习生 (zh) (shíxíshēng)

• Czech: stážista m
• Dutch: intern (nl) m
• Esperanto: staĝanto
• Finnish: työharjoittelija, harjoittelija (fi)
• French: stagiaire (fr)
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• German: Praktikant (de) m, Praktikantin (de) f
• Hungarian: gyakornok (hu)
• Italian: stagista (it)
• Japanese: 実習生 (じっしゅうせい, jisshūsei), インターン (intān)
• Norwegian: praktikant m
• Persian: کارآموز (fa) (kâr-âmuz), انترن (fa) (antern), کارورز (fa) (kâr-varz) (rare)
• Portuguese: estagiário (pt) m, estagiária f
• Russian: стажёр (ru) m (stažór), стажёрка (ru) f (stažórka), практика́нт (ru) m (praktikánt), практика́нтка (ru) f (praktikántka), инте́рн (ru) m (intɛ́rn)
• Spanish: pasante m or f, practicante (es) m or f, persona en prácticas f, interno (es) m, becario (es) m

medical trainee working in a hospital

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} intern (nl) m, ^{(please verify)} co-assistent m or f
• Finnish: amanuenssi (fi), hoitoharjoittelija
• French: interne (des hôpitaux) m
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• Japanese: インターン (intān)
• Persian: انترن (fa) (antern)
• Portuguese: interno (pt) m

Verb

intern (third-person singular simple present interns, present participle interning, simple past and past participle interned)

1. (intransitive) To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.

   I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.

Translations

to work as an intern

• Portuguese: estagiar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• netrin, tinner

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin internus.

Adjective

intern (feminine interna, masculine plural interns, feminine plural internes)

1. internal

   Antonym: extern

Derived terms

• internament
• internar

Further reading

• “intern” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intern”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “intern” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intern” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Adjective

intern (neuter internt, plural and definite singular attributive interne)

1. internal

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Dutch

Etymology

From French interne (“inner, internal”), or directly from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”).

Pronunciation

• intern:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrn

Adjective

intern (comparative interner, superlative internst)

1. internal, inside of something, of the body etc.

Inflection

Declension of intern
uninflected	intern
inflected	interne
comparative	interner
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		intern	interner	het internst het internste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	interne	internere	internste
	n. sing.	intern	interner	internste
	plural	interne	internere	internste
definite		interne	internere	internste
partitive		interns	interners	—

Synonyms

• inwendig

Related terms

• interneren
• internist m

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German

Adjective

intern

1. internal

Hyponyms

• schaltungsintern

Further reading

• “intern” in Duden online

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin internus

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

intern (neuter singular internt, definite singular and plural interne)

1. internal

Antonyms

• ekstern

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin internus

Adjective

intern (neuter singular internt, definite singular and plural interne)

1. internal

Antonyms

• ekstern

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Romanian

Etymology

French interne, Latin internus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [inˈtern]

Adjective

intern m or n (feminine singular internă, masculine plural interni, feminine and neuter plural interne)

1. internal

Declension

Declension of intern

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	intern		internă	interni	interne
	definite	internul		interna	internii	internele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	intern		interne	interni	interne
	definite	internului		internei	internelor	internilor

Antonyms

• extern

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin internus.

Adjective

intern (not comparable)

1. internal, something of no relevance for outsiders

Declension

Inflection of intern
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	intern	—	—
Neuter singular	internt	—	—
Plural	interna	—	—
Masculine plural3	interne	—	—
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	interne	—	—
All	interna	—	—
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Antonyms

• extern

Noun

intern c

1. a prisoner, an inmate

Declension

Declension of intern
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	intern	internen	interner	internerna
Genitive	interns	internens	interners	internernas

Synonyms

• fånge
• fängelsekund
• intagen

Related terms

• internera