loggen
German, verb
loggen is spelled L-O-G-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 78,979th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Loggen is a German verb meaning “to measure the speed of a ship by means of a log” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Loggen is a different word: “plural of Logge”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Geschwindigkeit eines Schiffes mithilfe eines speziellen Fahrtmessers – des Logs – ermitteln”.
What does loggen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to measure the speed of a ship by means of a log
- 2
to enter something into a logbook
- 3
to save something in a log
noun
- 1
plural of Logge
- 2
plural of Log
noun
- 1
neutergerund of loggen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. die Geschwindigkeit eines Schiffes mithilfe eines speziellen Fahrtmessers – des Logs – ermitteln 2. eine Aufzeichnung von bestimmten auf einem Computer ablaufenden Vorgängen machen 3. einen Eintrag im Logbuch eines Geocaches machen; den Fund eines Geocaches auf einer Geocache-Webseite protokollieren
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of loggen
- loggt present singular third-person
- loggte past
- geloggt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- loggend participle present
- logge first-person indicative present
- loggst indicative present second-person
- loggest second-person singular subjunctive
- logget plural second-person subjunctive
- loggten first-person indicative plural
- loggtest indicative preterite second-person
- loggtet indicative plural preterite
- logg imperative second-person singular
- habe geloggt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geloggt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- logg! imperative singular
- loggt! imperative plural
- geloggt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is loggen in German?
loggen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).