importunar
Spanish, verb/impoɾtuˈnaɾ/
importunar is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-U-N-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish, the 107,397th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Importunar is a Spanish verb meaning “to bother, pester” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Molestar con repetidas pretensiones, preguntas, etc”.
What does importunar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bother, pester
- 2
to inconvenience
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Molestar con repetidas pretensiones, preguntas, etc.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of importunar
- importuno first-person present singular
- importuné first-person preterite singular
- importunado participle past
- importunando gerund
- importunada feminine participle past
- importunados masculine participle past
- importunadas feminine participle past
- importunas indicative informal present
- importunás indicative informal present
- importuna indicative present singular
- importunamos first-person indicative plural
- importunáis indicative plural present
- importunan indicative plural present
- importunaba first-person imperfect indicative
- importunabas imperfect indicative second-person
- importunábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- importunabais imperfect indicative plural
- importunaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce importunar?
- /impoɾtuˈnaɾ/
- [ĩm.poɾ.t̪uˈnaɾ]
- [ĩmpoɾt̪uˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to importunar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is importunar in Spanish?
importunar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).