log in

See also: login, log-in, and Login

English

Etymology

By analogy with clock in.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Do we know when it was first used? Before computers? Early multi-user computers? Unix?”)

Verb

log in (third-person singular simple present logs in, present participle logging in, simple past and past participle logged in)

(computing) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously agreed upon username and password.
I would like to log in to check my e-mail, but I can't remember my password.

Synonyms

log on
sign on
sign in

Antonyms

log off
log out
sign off
sign out

Derived terms

login

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: registrarsi
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
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
Russian: авторизо́вываться (ru) (avtorizóvyvatʹsja), авторизова́ться (ru) (avtorizovátʹsja), войти́ (ru) (vojtí) (в систему v sistému), подсоедини́ться (ru) (podsojedinítʹsja), подключи́ться (ru) (podključítʹsja), зарегистри́роваться (ru) (zaregistrírovatʹsja)
Spanish: entrar (es), iniciar sesión, loguear
Swedish: logga in (sv)
Thai: ล็อกอิน
Tigrinya: ብመንነት እተው (bəmännät ʾətäw)
Turkish: giriş yapmak
Vietnamese: đăng nhập, hội nhập
Volapük: nunädön (vo)
Walloon: s' elodjî (wa)
Welsh: mewngofnodi (cy)

Anagrams

Ligon, Lingo, Loing, ligno-, lingo, long i, longi

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

log in

first-person singular present indicative of inloggen
imperative of inloggen

Anagrams

inlog