lasten
German, verb
lasten is spelled L-A-S-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written German, the 8,702nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lasten is a German verb meaning “to weigh on, to bear on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Lasten is a different word: “plural of Last”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Last drückend auf etwas oder jemandem liegen”.
What does lasten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to weigh on, to bear on
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Last
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. als Last drückend auf etwas oder jemandem liegen 2. durch eine finanzielle, wirtschaftliche oder andere Belastung beeinträchtigen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lasten
- lastet present singular third-person
- lastete past
- gelastet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- lastend participle present
- laste first-person indicative present
- lastest indicative present second-person
- lasteten first-person indicative plural
- lastetest indicative preterite second-person
- lastetet indicative plural preterite
- last imperative second-person singular
- habe gelastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gelastet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- last! imperative singular
- laste! imperative singular
- lastet! imperative plural
- gelastet haben active infinitive perfect
- zu lasten active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lasten in German?
lasten appears 7.8 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).