| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Kamu adalah baru tujuan ke/pada Iaying memboroskan ke/pada aII kita/kami, bukan kamu? | You're just intent to laying waste to all of us, aren't you? |
| Spektakuler yang memboroskan uang. | - Spectacular waste of money. |
| Karena pembunuhan itu memboroskan. | Because killing is wasteful. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | هدر | Dutch | verdoen,verklungelen, vermorsen, vermorzelen, verspillen |
| English | waste | Esperanto | dezertigi, malŝpari |
| Faroese | spilla | Finnish | hassata |
| French | gaspiller | German | aasen, verschwenden |
| Greek | σπαταλάω, χαραμίζω | Italian | sprecare |
| Japanese | 空費, 浪費 | Lithuanian | eikvoti, iššvaistyti, prašvilpti, švaistyti |
| Norwegian | sløse | Polish | marnować, pomarnować, strwonić, trwonić, zmarnieć, zmarnotrawić, zmarnować, zmarudzić |
| Portuguese | desperdiçar | Spanish | derrochar, desperdiciar, malgastar |
| Swedish | sluddra, slösa, öda, ödsla | Thai | เปลือง |
| Vietnamese | lãng phí, phí phạm, phung phí, thải |