Molestar means ‘to bother/annoy’. It is a regular -ar verb: molesta (present), molestó (preterite), molestado (past participle), molestando (gerund). It is mostly used in the third person with an indirect object pronoun, like gustar: me molesta, me molestan.
Molestar in use
Me molesta el humoSmoke bothers me
No quiero molestarteI don't want to bother you
Les molesta esperarWaiting bothers them
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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