molestar
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin molestāre, from molestus (“troublesome”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]molestar (first-person singular present molesto, first-person singular preterite molestí, past participle molestat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
Conjugation
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[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]molestar (first-person singular present molesto, first-person singular preterite molestei, past participle molestado)
Conjugation
[edit]1Less recommended.
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowing from English molest, Spanish molestar, Italian molestare, German molestieren and French molester.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]molestar (present tense molestas, past tense molestis, future tense molestos, imperative molestez, conditional molestus)
- (transitive) to molest, to harass, to mistreat
Conjugation
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present | past | future | ||||
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infinitive | molestar | molestir | molestor | ||||
tense | molestas | molestis | molestos | ||||
conditional | molestus | ||||||
imperative | molestez | ||||||
adjective active participle | molestanta | molestinta | molestonta | ||||
adverbial active participle | molestante | molestinte | molestonte | ||||
nominal active participle | singular | molestanto | molestinto | molestonto | |||
plural | molestanti | molestinti | molestonti | ||||
adjective passive participle | molestata | molestita | molestota | ||||
adverbial passive participle | molestate | molestite | molestote | ||||
nominal passive participle | singular | molestato | molestito | molestoto | |||
plural | molestati | molestiti | molestoti |
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin molestāre, from molestus (“troublesome”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]molestar (first-person singular present molesto, first-person singular preterite molestei, past participle molestado)
Conjugation
[edit]1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin molestāre, from molestus (“troublesome”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]molestar (first-person singular present molesto, first-person singular preterite molesté, past participle molestado)
- to bother, to disturb, to trouble, to impose, to inconvenience, to burden
- to annoy, to tease, to pester, to bug, to hassle
- to upset, to discomfort
- to mind (uses indirect object)
- (intransitive) to intrude
- (reflexive) to get upset
- (reflexive) to bother (to, en)
Usage notes
[edit]- molestar is a false friend and does not have the sexual connotation of English "to molest". The phrase for that in Spanish could be abusar sexualmente depending on context.
Conjugation
[edit]These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “molestar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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