| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Sie schallt mir aus Höhen, aus KlÜften, vertausendfacht! | It resounds to me from heights and chasms a thousand times! |
| Lass den schall der albern' Geckerei nicht dringen in mein ehrbar Haus. | Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my sober house. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | klink | Catalan | sonar,sondejar |
| Danish | lodde, tone | Dutch | klinken |
| English | sound | Esperanto | soni, trumpeti |
| Estonian | häälitsema, kõlama | Faroese | ljóða, tóna |
| Finnish | kajauttaa, kuulostaa, soida, sondeerata, tutkailla, äännähtää | French | sonder |
| Greek | βολιδοσκοπώ, ηχώ | Hungarian | hallatszik, hangzik, pendül |
| Indonesian | berwawasan | Italian | scandagliare, sondare |
| Japanese | 音を出す, 鳴らす | Latvian | skanēt |
| Lithuanian | nuskambėti | Macedonian | звучи |
| Norwegian | høyrast | Polish | brzmieć, dźwięczeć, opukać, pobrzmiewać, podpytywać, wysondować, zabrzmieć |
| Romanian | suna | Russian | звучать, прозвучать, раздаваться, раздаться |
| Spanish | fondear, sonar, sondar, sondear | Swedish | låta, tona |
| Vietnamese | kều |