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English
Etymology
By analogy with clock in. First use of the term appears in 1963 in the publication Compatible Time-Sharing System from the MIT Computation Center.
Pronunciation
Verb
log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.
- Synonyms: log on, sign in, sign on, log into
- Antonyms: log off, log out, sign off, sign out
I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.
- (transitive) To be placed at a certain ranking.
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 209:Their cover version of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" logged in at number 80 in 1968.
Derived terms
Translations
gain access to a computer system
- Afrikaans: meld aan
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Dungan: чинлэ (činle)
- Mandarin: 記入 / 记入 (zh) (jìrù), 登錄 / 登录 (zh) (dēnglù), 簽入 / 签入 (zh) (qiānrù)
- Czech: přihlásit se (cs)
- Danish: logge ind, logge på
- Dutch: aanmelden (nl), inloggen (nl)
- Esperanto: ensaluti
- Finnish: kirjautua (fi), kirjautua sisään
- French: s’identifier (fr), se connecter (fr)
- Georgian: ავტორიზაცია (avṭorizacia), სისტემაში შესვლა (sisṭemaši šesvla), შესვლა (šesvla)
- German: sich anmelden (de), sich einloggen (de), einloggen (de)
- Hungarian: belép (hu), bejelentkezik (hu)
- Icelandic: skrá inn
- Ido: enirar (io)
- Indonesian: masuk (id)
- Irish: logáil isteach
- Italian: accedere (it), autenticarsi, entrare (it)
- Japanese: ログインする (ja) (roguin suru), サインインする (sain'in suru)
- Khmer: ចូល (km) (cool)
- Korean: 로그인하다 (rogeu'inhada)
- Lingala: komíkitola
- Luxembourgish: aloggen
- Malay: log masuk
- Maori: takiuru
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: logge på
- Nynorsk: logga inn
- Polish: zalogować się (pl)
- Portuguese: fazer/realizar (o) login, entrar (pt), fazer login, realizar login, logar (pt) (slang), autenticar (pt), iniciar sessão, autenticar-se
- Romanian: autentifica (ro), loga (ro)
- Russian: авторизо́вываться (ru) (avtorizóvyvatʹsja), авторизова́ться (ru) (avtorizovátʹsja), войти́ (ru) (vojtí) (в систему v sistému), подсоедини́ться (ru) (podsojedinítʹsja), подключи́ться (ru) (podključítʹsja), зарегистри́роваться (ru) (zaregistrírovatʹsja)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: zalogowaś se
- Spanish: entrar (es), iniciar sesión, loguearse (es)
- Swedish: logga in (sv)
- Thai: ล็อกอิน
- Tigrinya: ብመንነት እተው (bəmännät ʾətäw)
- Turkish: giriş yapmak
- Vietnamese: đăng nhập (vi), hội nhập (vi)
- Volapük: nunädön (vo)
- Walloon: s' elodjî (wa)
- Welsh: mewngofnodi (cy)
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
log in
- inflection of inloggen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
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