läst
Swedish
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
läst (not comparable)
- read
- Din inkorg har fyra lästa brev och tre olästa.
- Your inbox contains four read messages and three unread ones.
Declension
| Inflection of läst | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | läst | — | — |
| Neuter singular | läst | — | — |
| Plural | lästa | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | läste | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | läste | — | — |
| All | lästa | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Etymology 2
From Old Norse leistr, from Proto-Germanic *laistiz, from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“track, furrow”).[1] Cognate with English last.
Declension
| Declension of läst | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | läst | lästen | läster | lästerna |
| Genitive | lästs | lästens | lästers | lästernas |
Derived terms
References
- “last”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- läst in Svensk ordbok.
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