German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Last
Meaning in English: load, burden
Example
Du bist mir keine Last.
You're not a burden to me.
Der, die or das?
Last is feminine: die Last. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Last?
Last is number 4,496 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 56,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,492nachfolgendfollowing, below
- 4,493schafftemanaged, made it
- 4,494zweitessecond
- 4,495gestattetpermitted, allowed
- 4,496die Lastload, burden
- 4,497Gremiencommittees, bodies
- 4,498angegebenenstated, specified
- 4,499wähltchooses; votes; dials
- 4,500der Zollcustoms, duty; inch
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,496
- The most common German nouns#1,955
- German B2 vocabulary#1,086
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#638
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.