Preocupar means ‘to worry’. It is a regular -ar verb: preocupa (present), preocupó (preterite), preocupado (past participle), preocupando (gerund). It is mostly used in the third person with an indirect object pronoun, like gustar: me preocupa, me preocupan.
Preocupar in use
Me preocupa el cambio climáticoClimate change worries me
Nos preocupaban las notas de mi hermanoMy brother's marks were worrying us
No quiero preocuparteI don't want to worry you
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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