chatted
SayCHAT-id/ˈt͡ʃætɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of chat.
She chatted with her neighbor over the fence about the weather.
They had chatted online for months before finally meeting in person.
Note
One form does both jobs, and the final t doubles as it does in other short verbs ending in a single vowel and consonant: she chatted, they had chatted. It carries every use of chat. The face-to-face sense usually takes with or about. A rarer transitive use means to talk something over. The real-time online sense appears in phrases like chatted on a messaging app.
chatted is a form of chat
chat, verb: To talk in a friendly, informal way, sometimes about a particular subject. Full entry
- Spelling
- chat → chatted: double the t, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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