Lese
German, noun
Lese is spelled L-E-S-E (4 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written German, the 2,891st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lese is a German feminine noun meaning “harvest, picking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, lese is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Entnahme von Früchten (besonders von Weintrauben) zur Erzeugung von Lebensmitteln”.
What does Lese mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineharvest, picking
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Entnahme von Früchten (besonders von Weintrauben) zur Erzeugung von Lebensmitteln 2. Umsetzung gedruckter Texte zu hörbaren vor Publikum
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 Lese
- Lesen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Lese
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Lese in German?
Lese appears 28 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).