importunar
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.poʁ.tuˈna(ʁ)/ [ĩ.poh.tuˈna(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ĩ.poɾ.tuˈna(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩ.poʁ.tuˈna(ʁ)/ [ĩ.poχ.tuˈna(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.poɻ.tuˈna(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.puɾ.tuˈnaɾ/
- Hyphenation: im‧por‧tu‧nar
Verb
importunar (first-person singular present importuno, first-person singular preterite importunei, past participle importunado)
- to bother; to harass; to importune
- Synonyms: irritar, incomodar
Conjugation
Conjugation of importunar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | importunar | |||||
| Personal | importunar | importunares | importunar | importunarmos | importunardes | importunarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| importunando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | importunado | importunados | ||||
| Feminine | importunada | importunadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | importuno | importunas | importuna | importunamos | importunais | importunam |
| Imperfect | importunava | importunavas | importunava | importunávamos | importunáveis | importunavam |
| Preterite | importunei | importunaste | importunou | importunamos1, importunámos2 | importunastes | importunaram |
| Pluperfect | importunara | importunaras | importunara | importunáramos | importunáreis | importunaram |
| Future | importunarei | importunarás | importunará | importunaremos | importunareis | importunarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| importunaria | importunarias | importunaria | importunaríamos | importunaríeis | importunariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | importune | importunes | importune | importunemos | importuneis | importunem |
| Imperfect | importunasse | importunasses | importunasse | importunássemos | importunásseis | importunassem |
| Future | importunar | importunares | importunar | importunarmos | importunardes | importunarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | importuna | importune | importunemos | importunai | importunem | |
| Negative (não) | não importunes | não importune | não importunemos | não importuneis | não importunem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
importuno + -ar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /impoɾtuˈnaɾ/ [ĩm.poɾ.t̪uˈnaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: im‧por‧tu‧nar
Verb
importunar (first-person singular present importuno, first-person singular preterite importuné, past participle importunado)
- (transitive) to inconvenience
Conjugation
Conjugation of importunar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | importunar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | importunando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | importunado | importunada | |||||
| plural | importunados | importunadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | importuno | importunastú importunásvos | importuna | importunamos | importunáis | importunan | |
| imperfect | importunaba | importunabas | importunaba | importunábamos | importunabais | importunaban | |
| preterite | importuné | importunaste | importunó | importunamos | importunasteis | importunaron | |
| future | importunaré | importunarás | importunará | importunaremos | importunaréis | importunarán | |
| conditional | importunaría | importunarías | importunaría | importunaríamos | importunaríais | importunarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | importune | importunestú importunésvos2 | importune | importunemos | importunéis | importunen | |
| imperfect (ra) | importunara | importunaras | importunara | importunáramos | importunarais | importunaran | |
| imperfect (se) | importunase | importunases | importunase | importunásemos | importunaseis | importunasen | |
| future1 | importunare | importunares | importunare | importunáremos | importunareis | importunaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | importunatú importunávos | importune | importunemos | importunad | importunen | ||
| negative | no importunes | no importune | no importunemos | no importunéis | no importunen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of importunar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive importunar | |||||||
| dative | importunarme | importunarte | importunarle, importunarse | importunarnos | importunaros | importunarles, importunarse | |
| accusative | importunarme | importunarte | importunarlo, importunarla, importunarse | importunarnos | importunaros | importunarlos, importunarlas, importunarse | |
| with gerund importunando | |||||||
| dative | importunándome | importunándote | importunándole, importunándose | importunándonos | importunándoos | importunándoles, importunándose | |
| accusative | importunándome | importunándote | importunándolo, importunándola, importunándose | importunándonos | importunándoos | importunándolos, importunándolas, importunándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative importuna | |||||||
| dative | importúname | importúnate | importúnale | importúnanos | not used | importúnales | |
| accusative | importúname | importúnate | importúnalo, importúnala | importúnanos | not used | importúnalos, importúnalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative importuná | |||||||
| dative | importuname | importunate | importunale | importunanos | not used | importunales | |
| accusative | importuname | importunate | importunalo, importunala | importunanos | not used | importunalos, importunalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative importune | |||||||
| dative | importúneme | not used | importúnele, importúnese | importúnenos | not used | importúneles | |
| accusative | importúneme | not used | importúnelo, importúnela, importúnese | importúnenos | not used | importúnelos, importúnelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative importunemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | importunémoste | importunémosle | importunémonos | importunémoos | importunémosles | |
| accusative | not used | importunémoste | importunémoslo, importunémosla | importunémonos | importunémoos | importunémoslos, importunémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative importunad | |||||||
| dative | importunadme | not used | importunadle | importunadnos | importunaos | importunadles | |
| accusative | importunadme | not used | importunadlo, importunadla | importunadnos | importunaos | importunadlos, importunadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative importunen | |||||||
| dative | importúnenme | not used | importúnenle | importúnennos | not used | importúnenles, importúnense | |
| accusative | importúnenme | not used | importúnenlo, importúnenla | importúnennos | not used | importúnenlos, importúnenlas, importúnense | |
Further reading
- “importunar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014