Standard Lemma guide

chat

intj · name · noun · verb · 23 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -æt
  • CMU ARPABET: CH AE1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: humorous, informal

Examples

  • Chat, is this real?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: I don't suppose

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

ChatGPT.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Chatty G

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Informal conversation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Internet Relay Chat

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, uncountable

Examples

  • "Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable

Examples

  • The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
  • "Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, nonstandard, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: regional

Topics: business, mining

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A louse (small, parasitic insect).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, World-War-I, slang

Topics: government, military, politics, war

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Alternative form of chaat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To be engaged in informal conversation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
  • I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: confab, discourse, parley, chat, common, confabulate, conversate, converse, convo, jaw, treat, word

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To talk a while in a friendly manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To talk of; to discuss.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • They chatted politics for a while.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bespeak, moot, talk about, bechat, confer, betalk, chat, discuss, talk over, treat

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, often, slang

Examples

  • Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

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).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Do you want to chat online later?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

noun

Meaning 20

songbirds having a chattering call

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Old World chat

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: thrush

Narrower terms: stonechat, Saxicola torquata, whinchat, Saxicola rubetra

21

noun

Meaning 21

birds having a chattering call

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: New World chat

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: New World warbler, wood warbler

Narrower terms: yellow-breasted chat, Icteria virens

22

noun

Meaning 22

an informal conversation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: conversation

Narrower terms: chitchat, chit-chat, chit chat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin wag, chin-wag, chin wagging, chin-wagging, causerie

23

verb

Meaning 23

talk socially without exchanging too much information

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: converse, discourse

Narrower terms: shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der. Middle English chateren English chatterclip. English chat Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

Clipping of ChatGPT.

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.

Unknown.

From thieves' cant.

Across languages

Translations

397 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: geselsie — informal conversation
  • Arabic: مُحَادَثَّة (muḥādaṯṯa) — informal conversation
  • Azerbaijani: söhbət — informal conversation
  • Belarusian: размо́ва (razmóva) — informal conversation
  • Belarusian: гу́тарка (hútarka) — informal conversation
  • Bulgarian: ра́зговор (rázgovor) — informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聊天 (liáotiān) — informal conversation
  • Danish: snak — informal conversation
  • Danish: snakken — informal conversation
  • Dutch: gebabbel — informal conversation
  • Dutch: geklets — informal conversation
  • Dutch: kletspraat — informal conversation
  • Esperanto: babilo — informal conversation
  • Esperanto: babilado — informal conversation
  • Finnish: juttelu — informal conversation
  • Finnish: rupattelu — informal conversation
  • German: Schwatz — informal conversation
  • German: Geplauder — informal conversation
  • German: Schwätzchen — informal conversation
  • Greek: κουβεντούλα (kouventoúla) — informal conversation
  • Greek: ψιλοκουβέντα (psilokouvénta) — informal conversation
  • Hebrew: פִּטְפּוּט (pitpút) — informal conversation
  • Hungarian: beszélgetés — informal conversation
  • Hungarian: csevegés — informal conversation
  • Hungarian: csevej — informal conversation
  • Hungarian: diskurálás — informal conversation
  • Indonesian: obrolan — informal conversation
  • Italian: chiacchiera — informal conversation
  • Japanese: 会話 (kaiwa) — informal conversation
  • Japanese: 話し (hanashi) — informal conversation
  • Japanese: おしゃべり (oshaberi) — informal conversation
  • Korean: 잡담 (japdam) — informal conversation
  • Korean: 이야기 (iyagi) — informal conversation
  • Korean: 수다 (suda) — informal conversation
  • Latvian: tērzēšana — informal conversation
  • Lithuanian: pasišnekėjimas — informal conversation
  • Lithuanian: pokalbis — informal conversation
  • Malay: sembang — informal conversation
  • Malay: bual — informal conversation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: samtale — informal conversation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: prat — informal conversation
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: samtale — informal conversation
  • Iranian Persian: گَپ (gap) — informal conversation
  • Polish: pogawędka — informal conversation
  • Portuguese: papo — informal conversation
  • Portuguese: conversa — informal conversation
  • Russian: разгово́р (razgovór) — informal conversation
  • Russian: бесе́да (beséda) — informal conversation
  • Russian: болтовня́ (boltovnjá) — informal conversation
  • Scottish Gaelic: seanchas — informal conversation
  • Spanish: cháchara — informal conversation
  • Spanish: charla — informal conversation
  • Spanish: chamuyo — informal conversation
  • Spanish: lata — informal conversation
  • Spanish: palique — informal conversation
  • Swedish: småprat — informal conversation
  • Swedish: konversation — informal conversation
  • Swedish: snack — informal conversation
  • Thai: คุย (kui) — informal conversation
  • Turkish: konuşma — informal conversation
  • Turkish: sohbet — informal conversation
  • Ottoman Turkish: صحبت (sohbet) — informal conversation
  • Ottoman Turkish: محبت (muhabbet) — informal conversation
  • Ottoman Turkish: لقردی (lakırdı) — informal conversation
  • Ukrainian: розмо́ва (rozmóva) — informal conversation
  • Ukrainian: бе́сіда (bésida) — informal conversation
  • Vietnamese: tán gẫu — informal conversation
  • Welsh: sgwrs — informal conversation
  • Bulgarian: ра́зговор (rázgovor) — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Bulgarian: бесе́да (beséda) — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 談話 /谈话 (tánhuà) — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Dutch: gesprek — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Dutch: babbel — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Esperanto: babilado — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Finnish: keskustelu — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • French: discussion — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • German: Gespräch — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Norwegian Bokmål: prat — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Portuguese: conversa — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Russian: разгово́р (razgovór) — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Russian: бесе́да (beséda) — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Swedish: samtal — conversation to stop an argument or settle situations
  • Abkhaz: аиҿцәажәарҭа (ajĉʼcwaẑwarta) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Albanian: bisedim — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Albanian: bisedë — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Arabic: دَرْدَشَة (dardaša) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Armenian: չատ (čʻat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Azerbaijani: çat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Belarusian: чат (čat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Bengali: চ্যাট (cêṭ) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Bulgarian: чат (čat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Burmese: ချတ် (hkyat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Catalan: xat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Chinese Cantonese: 謦欬 (hing3 koi3) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Chinese Cantonese: 傾偈 /倾偈 — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聊天 (liáotiān) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Czech: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Danish: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Dutch: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Esperanto: ĉato — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Esperanto: mesaĝado — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Estonian: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Finnish: keskustelu — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Finnish: tsätti — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Finnish: chatti — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Finnish: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • French: clavardage — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • French: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Georgian: ჩატი (čaṭi) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • German: Chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Greek: τηλεσυνδιάσκεψη (tilesyndiáskepsi) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Greek: συνομιλία (synomilía) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Hebrew: צ׳אט (chet) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Hindi: चैट (caiṭ) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Hungarian: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Hungarian: cset — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Icelandic: spjall — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Indonesian: obrolan — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Irish: comhrá — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Italian: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Japanese: チャット (chatto) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Kazakh: чат (çat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Korean: 채팅 (chaeting) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Kyrgyz: чат (cat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Latvian: čats — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Lithuanian: čatas — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Macedonian: чет (čet) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Malay: sembang dalam talian — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Norwegian Bokmål: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Iranian Persian: چَت (čat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Polish: czat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Polish: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Portuguese: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Portuguese: bate-papo — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Romanian: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Russian: чат (čat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Serbo-Croatian: чат — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Serbo-Croatian: че̏т — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Serbo-Croatian: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Serbo-Croatian: čat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Serbo-Croatian: čȅt — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Slovak: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Slovak: čet — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Slovene: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Spanish: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Swedish: tjatt — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Swedish: chatt — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Tagalog: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Tajik: чат (čat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Thai: แชต (chɛ̂ɛt) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Thai: แชท (chɛ̂ɛt) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Thai: คุย (kui) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Turkish: sohbet — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Turkish: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Turkish: çevrimiçi sohbet — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Ukrainian: чат (čat) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Urdu: چَیٹ (caiṭ) — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Uzbek: chat — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Vietnamese: trò chuyện trực tuyến — exchange of text or voice messages in real time
  • Bulgarian: чат (čat) — entirety of users in a chat room
  • Esperanto: ĉiuj — entirety of users in a chat room
  • Portuguese: chat — entirety of users in a chat room
  • Russian: чат (čat) — entirety of users in a chat room
  • Turkish: çet — entirety of users in a chat room
  • Dutch: tapuit — bird in the subfamily Saxicolini
  • Finnish: pensastasku — bird in the subfamily Saxicolini
  • German: Schmätzer — bird in the subfamily Saxicolini
  • Greek: ικτερίς (ikterís) — bird in the subfamily Saxicolini
  • Irish: caislín — bird in the subfamily Saxicolini
  • Russian: чека́н (čekán) — bird in the subfamily Saxicolini
  • Finnish: rikastusjäte — mining waste
  • Afrikaans: gesels — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Afrikaans: klets — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Arabic: دردش (dardiš) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Arabic: دردش (dardaš) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Belarusian: гута́рыць (hutárycʹ) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Bulgarian: бъ́бря (bǎ́brja) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Catalan: xerrar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Cantonese: 傾偈 /倾偈 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Cantonese: 傾 /倾 (king1) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Hakka Chinese: 講牙蛇 /讲牙蛇 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Hakka Chinese: 講閒談 /讲闲谈 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Hakka Chinese: 閒談 /闲谈 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Jin Chinese: 胡叨拉 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Jin Chinese: 拍達 /拍达 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Jin Chinese: 叨拉 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Jin Chinese: 閒拉呱 /闲拉呱 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Jin Chinese: 閒拍達 /闲拍达 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Jin Chinese: 閒叨拉 /闲叨拉 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Jin Chinese: 圪扯 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聊天 (liáotiān) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 攀談 /攀谈 (pāntán) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 談天 /谈天 (tántiān) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 閑談 /闲谈 (xiántán) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 閑聊 /闲聊 (xiánliáo) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 嘮嗑兒 /唠嗑儿 (làokēr) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聊天兒 /聊天儿 (liáotiānr) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 扯句兒 /扯句儿 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拉呱兒 /拉呱儿 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拉呱 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 閒扯 /闲扯 (xiánchě) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 諞 /谝 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 諞閒傳 /谝闲传 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 拍喙鼓 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 練仙 /练仙 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 練㾪話 /练㾪话 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 䛩奅 /𲂉奅 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 傾談 /倾谈 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 答喙鼓 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 喝仙 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 練㾪牙 /练㾪牙 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 冇談 /冇谈 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 傾偈 /倾偈 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 觸喙鼓 /触喙鼓 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 破豆 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 開講 /开讲 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 拍法 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 拍拉涼 /拍拉凉 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 敲虎 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 練牙 /练牙 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 設潲 /设潲 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 講四方 /讲四方 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 落灑 /落洒 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 敲嘓 /敲啯 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 詖話 /诐话 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 講古 /讲古 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 練戇話 /练戆话 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 詖涼詖熱 /诐凉诐热 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 講善喻 /讲善喻 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 畫虎 /画虎 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 詖閒話 /诐闲话 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Min Nan Chinese: 拍嘓 /拍啯 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Northern Min Chinese: 冇講 /冇讲 (po̿ng-gǒng) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Northern Min Chinese: 講故事 /讲故事 (gǒng-gu̿-si̿) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese: 講新聞 /讲新闻 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Chinese: 百靈 /百灵 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Wu Chinese: 講白搭 /讲白搭 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Wu Chinese: 講閒談 /讲闲谈 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Wu Chinese: 講張 /讲张 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Wu Chinese: 談天 /谈天 (2daen-thien1) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Wu Chinese: 談閒 /谈闲 — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Czech: povídat — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Czech: povídat si — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Danish: snakke — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Danish: sludre — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Dutch: kletsen — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Dutch: babbelen — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Esperanto: babili — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Finnish: jutella — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Finnish: rupatella — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Finnish: turista — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Finnish: horista — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Finnish: lörpötellä — be engaged in informal conversation
  • French: jaser — be engaged in informal conversation
  • French: placoter — be engaged in informal conversation
  • French: bavarder — be engaged in informal conversation
  • French: papoter — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Galician: laretar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Galician: parolar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Galician: charlar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • German: sich unterhalten — be engaged in informal conversation
  • German: plaudern — be engaged in informal conversation
  • German: schwatzen — be engaged in informal conversation
  • German: klönen — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Greek: ψιλοκουβεντιάζω (psilokouventiázo) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Greek: συνομιλώ (synomiló) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Hungarian: beszélget — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Hungarian: cseveg — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Hungarian: diskurál — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Icelandic: spjalla — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Indonesian: mengobrol — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Indonesian: kongko — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Indonesian: obrol — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Italian: chiacchierare — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Japanese: 喋る (shaberu) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Korean: 잡담하다 (japdamhada) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Korean: 한담하다 (handamhada) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Korean: 지껄이다 (jikkeorida) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Korean: 재잘거리다 (jaejalgeorida) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Korean: 수다떨다 (sudatteolda) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Ladino: echar lashon — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Lao: ຄຸຍ (khuy) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Latin: fabulor — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Malay: bersembang — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Malay: berbual — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Maltese: tpaċpiċ — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Meänkieli: praatata — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sludre — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: småprate — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Norwegian Bokmål: snakke — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Nuosu: ꌧꈿ (syp mgep) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Oromo: haasa'uu — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Persian: گپ زدن (gap zadan) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Plautdietsch: schwauzen — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Plautdietsch: pludren — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Polish: gawędzić — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Polish: gadać — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Portuguese: papear — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Portuguese: bater papo — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Portuguese: conversar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Portuguese: teclar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Russian: разгова́ривать (razgovárivatʹ) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Russian: болта́ть (boltátʹ) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Serbo-Croatian: ćaskati — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Slovak: rozprávať sa — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Sotho: qoqa — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Spanish: charlar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Spanish: platicar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Spanish: chamuyar — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Swedish: småprata — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Swedish: konversera — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Swedish: tjatta — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Swedish: snacka — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Tagalog: makipagchat — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Tagalog: makipag-usap — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Thai: คุย (kui) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Turkish: sohbet — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Turkish: kasavan — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Ottoman Turkish: صحبت ایتمك (sohbet etmek) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Ukrainian: бала́кати (balákaty) — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Vietnamese: tán gẫu — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Vietnamese: tám — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Vietnamese: nói chuyện phiếm — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Walloon: berdeler — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Walloon: tchafter — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Welsh: sgwrsio — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Wolof: waxtaan — be engaged in informal conversation
  • Afrikaans: gesels — talk more than a few words
  • Bulgarian: разгова́рям (razgovárjam) — talk more than a few words
  • Bulgarian: приказвам (prikazvam) — talk more than a few words
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聊天 (liáotiān) — talk more than a few words
  • Danish: snakke — talk more than a few words
  • Dutch: kletsen — talk more than a few words
  • Dutch: babbelen — talk more than a few words
  • Finnish: puhella — talk more than a few words
  • French: discuter — talk more than a few words
  • French: parler — talk more than a few words
  • French: converser — talk more than a few words
  • German: sich unterhalten — talk more than a few words
  • German: plaudern — talk more than a few words
  • German: schwatzen — talk more than a few words
  • German: klönen — talk more than a few words
  • Greek: ψιλοκουβεντιάζω (psilokouventiázo) — talk more than a few words
  • Greek: συνομιλώ (synomiló) — talk more than a few words
  • Hungarian: elbeszélget — talk more than a few words
  • Hungarian: eldiskurál — talk more than a few words
  • Ingrian: läkäellä — talk more than a few words
  • Italian: parlare — talk more than a few words
  • Italian: conversare — talk more than a few words
  • Latin: fabulor — talk more than a few words
  • Malay: bersembang — talk more than a few words
  • Malay: berbual — talk more than a few words
  • Persian: گپ زدن (gap zadan) — talk more than a few words
  • Portuguese: conversar — talk more than a few words
  • Sotho: qoqa — talk more than a few words
  • Swedish: prata — talk more than a few words
  • Vietnamese: tán gẫu — talk more than a few words
  • Vietnamese: tám — talk more than a few words
  • Walloon: ramter — talk more than a few words
  • Walloon: tchafyî — talk more than a few words
  • Walloon: plaidî — talk more than a few words
  • Welsh: sgwrsio — talk more than a few words
  • Afrikaans: gesels — exchange messages in real time
  • Bulgarian: ча́тя (čátja) — exchange messages in real time
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聊天 (liáotiān) — exchange messages in real time
  • Czech: chatovat — exchange messages in real time
  • Czech: četovat — exchange messages in real time
  • Danish: chatte — exchange messages in real time
  • Dutch: chatten — exchange messages in real time
  • Finnish: tsättäillä — exchange messages in real time
  • Finnish: chatata — exchange messages in real time
  • French: tchatter — exchange messages in real time
  • French: chatter — exchange messages in real time
  • French: clavarder — exchange messages in real time
  • German: chatten — exchange messages in real time
  • Greek: τηλεσυνδιασκέπτομαι (tilesyndiasképtomai) — exchange messages in real time
  • Hungarian: cseveg — exchange messages in real time
  • Hungarian: csetel — exchange messages in real time
  • Hungarian: chatel — exchange messages in real time
  • Italian: chattare — exchange messages in real time
  • Italian: chiacchierare — exchange messages in real time
  • Latin: fabulor — exchange messages in real time
  • Malay: bersembang — exchange messages in real time
  • Malay: berbual — exchange messages in real time
  • Norwegian: chatte — exchange messages in real time
  • Portuguese: bater papo — exchange messages in real time
  • Portuguese: conversar — exchange messages in real time
  • Russian: ча́титься (čátitʹsja) — exchange messages in real time
  • Sotho: qoqa — exchange messages in real time
  • Spanish: chatear — exchange messages in real time
  • Swedish: chatta — exchange messages in real time
  • Swedish: tjatta — exchange messages in real time
  • Tagalog: makipagchat — exchange messages in real time
  • Walloon: tchater — exchange messages in real time
  • Walloon: berdeler — exchange messages in real time
  • Welsh: sgwrsio — exchange messages in real time