Meaning of "chatting" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF CHATTING

chatting  [ˈtʃætɪŋ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHATTING

Chatting is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb chatting in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CHATTING

PRESENT

Present

I chat

you chat

he/she/it chats

we chat

you chat

they chat

Present continuous

I am chatting

you are chatting

he/she/it is chatting

we are chatting

you are chatting

they are chatting

Present perfect

I have chatted

you have chatted

he/she/it has chatted

we have chatted

you have chatted

they have chatted

Present perfect continuous

I have been chatting

you have been chatting

he/she/it has been chatting

we have been chatting

you have been chatting

they have been chatting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I chatted

you chatted

he/she/it chatted

we chatted

you chatted

they chatted

Past continuous

I was chatting

you were chatting

he/she/it was chatting

we were chatting

you were chatting

they were chatting

Past perfect

I had chatted

you had chatted

he/she/it had chatted

we had chatted

you had chatted

they had chatted

Past perfect continuous

I had been chatting

you had been chatting

he/she/it had been chatting

we had been chatting

you had been chatting

they had been chatting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will chat

you will chat

he/she/it will chat

we will chat

you will chat

they will chat

Future continuous

I will be chatting

you will be chatting

he/she/it will be chatting

we will be chatting

you will be chatting

they will be chatting

Future perfect

I will have chatted

you will have chatted

he/she/it will have chatted

we will have chatted

you will have chatted

they will have chatted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been chatting

you will have been chatting

he/she/it will have been chatting

we will have been chatting

you will have been chatting

they will have been chatting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would chatting

you would chatting

he/she/it would chatting

we would chatting

you would chatting

they would chatting

Conditional continuous

I would be chatting

you would be chatting

he/she/it would be chatting

we would be chatting

you would be chatting

they would be chatting

Conditional perfect

I would have chatting

you would have chatting

he/she/it would have chatting

we would have chatting

you would have chatting

they would have chatting

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been chatting

you would have been chatting

he/she/it would have been chatting

we would have been chatting

you would have been chatting

they would have been chatting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you chat
we let´s chat
you chat

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to chat

Past participle

chatted

Present Participle

chatting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «CHATTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «chatting» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of chatting

blather · blether · chinwag · confab · conversation · craic · gossip · heart-to-heart · jaw · korero · natter · schmooze · shoot the breeze · talk

TRANSLATION OF CHATTING

Find out the translation of chatting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of chatting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chatting» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 聊天
• Translator English - Spanish: chat
• English: chatting
• Translator English - Hindi: चैटिंग
• Translator English - Arabic: الدردشة
• Translator English - Russian: в чате
• Translator English - Portuguese: conversando
• Translator English - Bengali: চ্যাটিং
• Translator English - French: bavardage
• Translator English - Malay: Berbual
• Translator English - German: Chat
• Translator English - Japanese: チャット
• Translator English - Korean: 채팅
• Translator English - Javanese: Ngobrol
• Translator English - Vietnamese: trò chuyện
• Translator English - Tamil: அரட்டையில்
• Translator English - Marathi: गप्पा मारणे
• Translator English - Turkish: sohbet
• Translator English - Italian: chat
• Translator English - Polish: na czacie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: в чаті
• Translator English - Romanian: chat
• Translator English - Greek: κουβεντιάζοντας
• Translator English - Afrikaans: gesels
• Translator English - Swedish: chattar
• Translator English - Norwegian: chatting

10 QUOTES WITH «CHATTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word chatting.

1

Bryan Adams

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

2

Sergio Aguero

The first time I met Leo Messi, I didn't know who he was, only that I couldn't believe the boots he was wearing. But he is like a brother to me. It was at the start of 2005, when I was with the Argentine under-17 squad and I saw him chatting with Ezequiel Garay and some other players about the boots he'd brought back from the U.S.A.

3

Maria Bamford

I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.

4

Bruce Beresford

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

5

Rebecca Black

I don't really use YouTube that much. I am a very Internet-oriented person, but I'm more of a Twitter freak - I'm always on Twitter. Or chatting with friends.

6

Suzanne Brockmann

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk. Too often, at regular book signings, I meet readers who have traveled six or eight hours to see me, and I'm unable to spend more than a few short minutes chatting with them as I sign books.

7

Dominika Cibulkova

I spend days on my Xperia logging on Facebook chatting with my friends and family at home; I love listening to Rihanna and Pink and watching movies. Basically, anything that makes me smile, but most of my fans will know that I am always smiling!

8

Alan Cumming

With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

9

Richard Fleeshman

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!

10

Nick Frost

I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHATTING»

Discover the use of chatting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chatting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Chatting Or Cheating: How to Detect Infidelity, Rebuild ...

Whether the reader suspects his or her partner of cheating, or is the one who's been engaging in a secret affair, Meyers describes the process of discovery, confrontation, confession, and healing that can save a relationship and make it ...

Sheri Meyers, 2012

Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview

This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version.

Henri Matisse, Serge Guilbaut, 2013

Chatting

You can chat with friends or the cat, in the park or the supermarket, face to face or on the telephone... With warmth and humour, Shirley Hughes portrays the many applications one simple word can have.

Shirley Hughes, 2005

Acronyms Dictionary for Texting Chatting E-mail

Becky Symens. Acronyms Dictionary for Texting - Chatting - E-mail by Becky Symens Acronyms Dictionary for Texting - Chatting - E-mail First Edition Front Cover.

Becky Symens

Chatting Through Business School

Anatoliy Ilizarov. ANATOLIY ILIZAROV SCHOOL BUSINESS CHATTING THROUGH SCHOOL BUSINESS CHATTING THROUGH SCHOOL BUSINESS ANATOLIY ILIZAROV. CHATTING THROUGH Front Cover.

Anatoliy Ilizarov, 2014

La fouly: chatting about mathematics and life in a remote ...

"This is a modern novel about mathematics. A teenager and an old university professor meet in the remote village La Fouly, on Val Ferret, in the Swiss Alps. They go hiking in the surrounding mountains.

Silviu Guiașu, 2005

Web Communication Technologies and Internet-Related Social ...

We construct a relation table that contains the comparison of the general vocabulary and chatting vocabulary. Also this study proposes a method for constructing a comprehensive chatting dictionary that includes the several sublists of the ...

Chin-Wan Chung, 2003

Funny Boy Takes on the Chit-Chatting Cheeses from Chattanooga

Tired of letting humans steal their milk, American cows have gone on strike. This is great news for every kid who hates drinking his milk, but trouble for anybody who likes cheese.

Dan Gutman, 2012

Funny Boy Takes on the Chit-Chatting Cheese from Chattanooga

When three alien cheeses threaten the Earth with cheesy destruction, Funny Boy must once again use his superhuman wit to save the planet.

Dan Gutman, 2000

THE INTERNET: A USER’S GUIDE

CHAPTER 14 INTERNET CHATTING AND MESSAGING INTRODUCTION Internet Relay Chat also known as IRC or simply chat is an Internet wide chat facility. It is the original chat medium used for making online conversation with other ...

K. L. JAMES, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHATTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term chatting is used in the context of the following news items.

Interview: Chatting with Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker About …

We all watched Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker fall in love on Showtime's "Soul Food" fifteen years ago. The duo had electric chemistry then ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»

HABBO CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF FRIENDSHIPS, CHATTING …

[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]. «Gamasutra, Jul 15»

Husband dropped dead after chatting and kissing with his wife of …

A LOVING husband took his last breath just moments after chatting and kissing with his wife of just one year. Alan Dean and wife Michelle were ... «Lancashire Evening Post, Jul 15»

Teens 'Killed Woman While Chatting On Facebook'

Teens 'Killed Woman While Chatting On Facebook'. The friend of a girl on trial for the killing of Angela Wrightson says she heard "f****** kill ... «Sky News, Jul 15»

BWW Exclusive: Chatting with THE UNBUILT CITY's Beth Dixon and …

BWW Exclusive: Chatting with THE UNBUILT CITY's Beth Dixon and Carter Hudson Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»

Chatting With Lisa L'Amour About Her Latest Play, Detroit

Lisa D'Amour's play, Detroit (which has nothing to do with the Motor City, except for the unease about economic instability the word can trigger) ... «SF Weekly, Jul 15»

Chatting with Derek Hough of 'Dancing With the Stars'

There isn't much that “Dancing With the Stars” champions and siblings Julianne and Derek Hough don't do: They dance. They sing. They act. «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Chatting with Chef and Author Sarabeth Levine

Sarabeth Levine is an old friend to Dan's Papers. She's been bringing her great smile, her delicious cookies and her handsome husband and ... «Dan's Papers, Jul 15»

Chatting With: The Brian Sances Band

Fusion, funk, rock and reggae - the Brian Sances Band plays it all and always in an original way. And for those who like to listen to the more ... «Wicked Local Brewster, Jul 15»

Chatting about Notasium, At-Home Dad Convention on Fox 50

I'll be chatting about two dad-planned happenings during my regular Wednesday morning segment on WRAL's morning news on Fox 50. «WRAL.com, Jun 15»