1 to disturb or interrupt -- forstyrre
Sorry to bother you. Beklager at jeg forstyrrer deg.
It bothers me that he is away so much. Det plager meg at han er så mye borte.
4 to take the trouble -- bry seg, gjøre seg umaken
I figured this guy wasn't all there, but you should have heard him get all hot and bothered about everything.
With respect to memetics, the authors are bothered by the lack of a clear definition of a meme.
You see, years ago a doctor never even bothered about your weight.
Not even his biographers have bothered to mention it.
We don't want government officials bothering us with their development projects, taking our money and never doing anything.
In 1952 only 29.7 per cent of those eligible to vote bothered to register, and of those who registered 12.4 per cent failed to vote.
Only a small number of researchers have bothered to ask the learners themselves what they think about these issues.
By the 1970s the academic modernizers had fallen silent, seldom even bothering to respond to their numerous critics.
