Adjective: las
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | las |
| Singular f. | lasse |
| Plural m. | las |
| Plural f. | lasses |
Sample Sentences
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La solitude me pèse. J’aimerais à avoir un ami, un véritable ami, ou bien une maîtresse à qui je confierais mes peines. Quand on erre, toute une journée, sans parler, on se sent las, le soir dans sa chambre. (Loneliness weighs heavily on me. I would like to have a friend, a true friend, or a lover to whom I could confide my sorrow. When one wanders all day without speaking to anybody, one feels weary in one's bedroom at night.) [1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes amis [My Friends], Paris: Émile-Paul Frères:]
Etymology
Inherited from Old French las, from Latin lassus. See: Latin Adjectives '
lassus'.
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