| Example in Spanish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Dispersas por el suelo océanico, marcadas por boyas flotantes, hay cinco objetos del tesoro. | Scattered along the ocean floor, marked by floating buoys, are five treasure items. |
| N º Dios mio, señoras y señores, tomó las boyas. | Ladies and gentlemen, off come the floaties! |
| Son como boyas flotando solitarias. | They're like floating singles bars. |
| Un buzo que reparaba el muelle vio algo atrapado abajo de las boyas se sumergió para mirar de cerca. | One of the divers repairing docks out here saw something trapped under the floaters. Went in for a closer look, turned out to be two dead bodies. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | dryf,sweef | Arabic | طفا |
| Dutch | dobberen, drijven, glijden, zweven | English | float |
| Esperanto | flosi, flosigi | Estonian | floteerima, heljuma, hõljuma, ujutama |
| Faroese | flóta, floyta | Finnish | kellua, kelluttaa, leijailla, lilliä, lillua |
| French | flotter | German | flöhen, flottieren, gleiten, schweben |
| Hungarian | lebeg | Icelandic | fleyta, fljóta |
| Indonesian | hanyut, melayang, mengambang, mengapung, terkatung-katung | Italian | flottare, fluitare, galleggiare |
| Japanese | 漂う, 浮かぶ, 浮かべる, 浮く, 浮遊 | Lithuanian | plūduriuoti |
| Macedonian | плута | Norwegian | flyte, sveve |
| Polish | rozpisywać, unosić | Portuguese | boiar, desencalhar, flutuar |
| Quechua | tuytuy | Romanian | pluti |
| Swedish | simma | Thai | ลอย |
| Turkish | şamandıralamak | Vietnamese | bềnh bồng, bồng bềnh, lênh đênh, nổi, phao |