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Past tense of log

regular verb

The past tense of log is logged. The past participle is also logged.

Forms of log

Base form (V1)log /lɒɡ/
Past tense (V2)logged
Past participle (V3)logged
Present participlelogging /lɒɡ.ɪŋ/
Third person singularlogs /lɒɡz/

Logged in a sentence

  • The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
  • You only won that game because your last opponent logged. That's no fair!
  • When I logged in to the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.From the entry hack
  • He logged on to yahoo.com, skimmed the front page, and decided to sign in.From the entry log on
  • He had logged in to Wiktionary two months ago.From the entry wiktionary

Meaning of log

  1. noun The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
  2. noun Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
  3. noun A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.

Full definition of log

Questions about the past tense of log

What is the past tense of log?
The past tense of log is logged.
What is the past participle of log?
The past participle of log is logged.
Is log a regular or irregular verb?
Log is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: log (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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