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ellos molestaron

bothered, annoyed, bothered to

→ molestar
molest to bother, to annoy, to disturb + aron 3rd-person plural preterite
verb · 3rd-person plural, past tense Rare #45,942
bothered, annoyed Usually does not mean the serious English sense of “molested.”
SP: Los niños molestaron a su hermana mientras leía.
EN: The children bothered their sister while she was reading.
bothered to
SP: No se molestaron en llamarme.
EN: They didn’t bother to call me.
Conjugation of molestar
Indicative past
SingularPlural
First molesté molestamos
Third molestó molestaron

Ellas molestaron a la estudiante nueva.

They bullied the new student.

Unos tipos molestaron a Franci.

Some guys bothered Franci.

— Carandiru (2003)

Lo molestaron.

They bothered him.

— En presencia del diablo (2016)

Ellos molestaron al estudiante nuevo.

They bullied the new student.

Se proponen luchar, así que no se molestaron en escribir una respuesta.

They intend to fight, so they didn't bother writing a response.

— Acantilado Rojo (2008)

Me molestaron mucho sus comentarios.

His comments bothered me a lot.