| Example in Catalan | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Prohibiren ballar en públic tot tipus de danses, fins i tot les tradicionals. | All dance was banned. Even folk dances were banned to be performed publicly. |
| Que no malbarataria la vida planificant danses i festes de disfresses amb la resta de nobles. | I would not waste my years planning dances and masquerades with the other noble ladies. |
| I ara els didgeridus mentre Ridjimiraril balla la seva dansa de la mort. | And now the didgeridu as Ridjimiraril dances his own death dance. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | kërcej | Arabic | رقص |
| Azeri | rəqs etmək | Danish | danse |
| Dutch | dansen | English | dance |
| Esperanto | danci | Estonian | tantsisklema,tantsitama |
| Faroese | dansa | Finnish | jorata, panna jalalla koreasti, tanssia |
| French | danser | German | tanzen |
| Greek | χορεύω | Hebrew | חולל, רקד |
| Hungarian | táncol | Indonesian | berdansa, menari, tari |
| Italian | ballare, danzare | Japanese | 舞う, 踊る |
| Latvian | dejot | Lithuanian | sušokti, šokti |
| Maltese | żifen | Norwegian | danse |
| Persian | رقصیدن | Polish | odtańczyć, pląsać, potańczyć, przetańczyć, tanieć, tańczyć, zatańczyć |
| Portuguese | bailar, dançar | Quechua | tusuy |
| Romanian | dansa | Russian | плясать, сплясать, танцевать |
| Spanish | bailar, danzar | Swedish | dansa |
| Thai | เต้น, เต้นรำ, ฟ้อน, รำ, รำวง, ลีลาศ | Vietnamese | khiêu vũ, múa, nhay, nháy, vũ |