Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
be engaged in informal conversation:
Русский
By meaning 2
be engaged in informal conversation:
exchange messages in real time:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
talk more than a few words:
exchange messages in real time:

Examples

389 sentences
  1. Tom is chatting with his friends.

    Том балакає з друзями. — deniko

    ruТом болтает с друзьями. — Wezel

    deTom plauscht mit seinen Freunden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom chatted with Mary.

    Том побалакав з Мері. — deniko

    ruТом болтал с Мэри. — sharptoothed

    deTom unterhielt sich mit Maria. — Yorwba

  3. I chatted with Tom.

    Я побалакав із Томом. — deniko

    deIch habe mit Tom geplaudert. — Sudajaengi

Meaning

5 senses
  1. To be engaged in informal conversation.

    She chatted with her friend in the cafe.

    I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.

    sich unterhalten, plaudern, schwatzen

    разгова́риватьrazgovárivatʹ, болта́тьboltátʹ

    бала́катиbalákaty

  2. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).

    Do you want to chat online later?

    chatten

    ча́титьсяčátitʹsja

  3. To talk a while in a friendly manner.

    I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.

More meanings 2
  1. (transitive)To talk of; to discuss.

    They chatted politics for a while.

  2. (informal, often, slang)To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).

    Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.

More definitions
  • talk socially without exchanging too much information

Forms

chats, chatting, chatted, chatted

regular · Lesson

Base formchat · to chat
3rd person singularchats
Present participlechatting
Past simplechatted
Past participlechatted

Tenses

chat · chatted · will chat · have chatted

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theychat
he, she, itchats

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave chatted
he, she, ithas chatted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill chat

Past simpleLesson

all personschatted

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

29 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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