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English
Etymology
Rhetoric:
A possible/common pattern to arrange a speech or essay suggests putting your strongest and thus most important argument favoring your own opinion first and conclude with the weakest, thus least important argument.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlæst bʌt nɑt ˈlist/ (US)
- IPA(key): /ˈlɑːst bʌt nɒt ˈliːst/ (UK)
Adverb
last but not least often followed by a comma
- An expression to start the last item of a list, emphasising that while it is listed last, it is just as important as the rest of the items.
Synonyms
Translations
An expression to start the last item of a list
- Arabic: أخيراً وليس آخراً
- Bengali: শেষ তবে কম গুরত্ত্বপূর্ণ নয় (śeś tobe kom gurottopurno noẏ)
- Bulgarian: (и / но) не на последно място; (последно, но не по важност) ((i / no) ne na posledno mjasto; (posledno, no ne po važnost))
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 最後但同樣重要的是／最后但同样重要的是 (zuìhòu dàn tóngyàng zhòngyào de shì)
- Czech: v neposlední řadě
- Danish: sidst, men ikke mindst
- Dutch: laatst maar niet het minst
- Esperanto: laste sed ne malpleje
- Finnish: viimeisimpänä muttei vähäisimpänä
- French: dernier mais non des moindres
- German: zu guter Letzt (de), nicht zuletzt
- Hebrew: אחרון חביב (he) m (akharón khavív)
- Hungarian: végül, de nem utolsósorban (hu)
- Irish: an ball is mó ar deireadh, an meall is mó ar deireadh
- Italian: ultimo ma non meno importante
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sist, men ikke minst
- Nynorsk: sist, men ikkje minst
- Polish: na koniec
- Portuguese: último, mas não menos importante m
- Romanian: ultimul dar nu cel din urmă, nu în ultimul rând
- Russian: конечно (ru) (konečno), после́дний по счёту, но не по ва́жности (poslédnij po sčótu, no ne po vážnosti), хотя́ и после́дний, но не ме́нее ва́жный (xotjá i poslédnij, no ne méneje vážnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на крају крајева (sh), и наравно, последње, али не и најмање важно
- Roman: na kraju krajeva, i naravno, poslednje, ali ne i najmanje važno
- Slovak: v neposlednom rade
- Spanish: por último, pero no menos importante
- Swedish: sist men inte minst
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: אחרון אחרון חבֿיבֿ (akhren akhren khovev)
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