last but not least

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)

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

last but not least often followed by a comma

1. 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

• and of course

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 не́ на после́дно мя́сто (i né na poslédno mjásto)
• 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: le dernier mais non le moindre
• 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
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• 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)