German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Lust
Meaning in English: desire, wish; 'feel like'
False friend: Lust is not “lust”. Usually harmless: Lust haben = to feel like doing something. More false friends.
Example
Hast du Lust auf einen Kaffee?
Do you fancy a coffee?
Der, die or das?
Lust is feminine: die Lust. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Lust?
Lust is number 2,235 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 41 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,231das Updateupdate
- 2,232berücksichtigento take into account, to consider
- 2,233ehebefore (conjunction)
- 2,234die Teilhabeparticipation, inclusion
- 2,235die Lustdesire, wish; 'feel like'
- 2,236besondererspecial, particular (inflected)
- 2,237die Sendungprogramme, broadcast; shipment
- 2,238verdientearned; deserved
- 2,239getandone (past participle)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,235
- The most common German nouns#922
- German A2 vocabulary#517
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#301
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.