Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to last
Participle: lasted
Gerund: lasting
Indicative
Present
| I | last |
| you | last |
| he;she;it | lasts |
| we | last |
| you | last |
| they | last |
Perfect
| I | have lasted |
| you | have lasted |
| he;she;it | has lasted |
| we | have lasted |
| you | have lasted |
| they | have lasted |
Past
| I | lasted |
| you | lasted |
| he;she;it | lasted |
| we | lasted |
| you | lasted |
| they | lasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had lasted |
| you | had lasted |
| he;she;it | had lasted |
| we | had lasted |
| you | had lasted |
| they | had lasted |
Future
| I | will last |
| you | will last |
| he;she;it | will last |
| we | will last |
| you | will last |
| they | will last |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lasted |
| you | will have lasted |
| he;she;it | will have lasted |
| we | will have lasted |
| you | will have lasted |
| they | will have lasted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | last |
| you | last |
| he;she;it | last |
| we | last |
| you | last |
| they | last |
Perfect
| I | have lasted |
| you | have lasted |
| he;she;it | have lasted |
| we | have lasted |
| you | have lasted |
| they | have lasted |
Imperfect
| I | lasted |
| you | lasted |
| he;she;it | lasted |
| we | lasted |
| you | lasted |
| they | lasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had lasted |
| you | had lasted |
| he;she;it | had lasted |
| we | had lasted |
| you | had lasted |
| they | had lasted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would last |
| you | would last |
| he;she;it | would last |
| we | would last |
| you | would last |
| they | would last |
Perfect
| I | would have lasted |
| you | would have lasted |
| he;she;it | would have lasted |
| we | would have lasted |
| you | would have lasted |
| they | would have lasted |
Imperative
| you | last |
| we | Let's last |
| you | last |
Verbs conjugated like 'last'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'last'
blast,
cast,
east,
fast,
gast,
lait,
lant,
lase,
lash,
lat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to continue to exist
- abide, aby, endure, go on, hold on, live, persist, remain, stick, stick it out, stick out
- continue
- endure, persevere, persist, remain, perpetuate, abide
Antonyms
- to replace something with something else
- abide, endure, remain, stay, switch
- continue
- stop, halt, desist, interrupt
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "shoemaker's block," from O.E.
læste, from
last "track, footprint, trace," from P.Gmc.
*laistaz (cf. O.N.
leistr "the foot," O.H.G.
leist "track, footprint," Goth.
laistjan "to follow," O.E.
læran "to teach").
2. From Middle English lasten, from Old English lǣstan, from Proto-West Germanic *laistijan, from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną. Cognate with German leisten (“yield”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*laistijaną', German, old spelling '
leisten'.
Verbs referencing "last"
German, old spelling
leisten, Dutch
leesten, Luxembourgish
leeschten.
Sample Sentences
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Tom had watched the whole transaction from first to last, and had a perfect understanding of its results. To him, it looked like something unutterably horrible and cruel, because, poor, ignorant black soul ! he had not learned to generalize, and to take [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ O, she's better, ” said Ruth; “ I was in, this morning; made the bed, tidied up the house. Leah Hills went in, this afternoon, and baked bread and pies enough to last some days; and I engaged to go back to get her up, this evening. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] had left behind; but he seemed in no great hurry to bring on these incumbrances, for when we moved away, he loitered back into the cabin, and was plainly bent on stopping there so long as his money lasted. He was a great politician of course, and explained his opinions at some length to one of our company; but I only remember that he concluded with two sentiments, one of which was, Somebody for [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] a day or two before we left that port, and of whose dangerous neighbourhood we were warned by the sudden coldness of the weather, and the sinking of the mercury in the barometer. While these tokens lasted, a double look-out was kept, and many dismal tales were whispered after dark, of ships that had struck upon the ice and gone down in the night; but the wind obliging us to hold a southward course, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] up for targets ! Shall we whimper over legends of the tortures practised on each other by the Pagan Indians, and smile upon the cruelties of Christian men ! Shall we, so long as these things last, exult above the scattered remnants of that race, and triumph in the white enjoyment of their possessions ? Rather, for me, restore the forest and the Indian village; in lieu of stars and stripes, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] The citizen bids for a few turns, contemptuously measuring his opponent; but the bullet-head has the advantage over him, both in obstinacy and concealed length of purse, and the controversy lasts but a moment; the hammer falls,—he has got the girl, body and soul, unless God help her !
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ And how long do they generally last ? ” said the stranger.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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It lasted many months. It was awful, just terrible. And she finally just shut herself away.
(The Truthers)