| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| God doesn't plant car bombs 神は 車爆弾を 仕掛けない | God doesn't plant car bombs. |
| 基地に爆弾を 仕掛けた | I have placed explosives around the base, |
| 仕掛け、ベティ。 | Good work, Betty. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ابتدأ,بدأ, طفق | Catalan | començar |
| Danish | børje | Dutch | aanvangen, aanvatten |
| English | begin | Estonian | algama, alustama |
| Faroese | byrja | Finnish | alkaa, ruveta |
| French | commencer, mettre | German | anfangen, antreten, beginnen |
| Hungarian | elkezd, elkezdődik, kezd, kezdődik, megkezd, megkezdődik | Icelandic | byrja |
| Italian | cominciare, incominciare, iniziare, principiare | Latvian | sākt, uzsākt |
| Lithuanian | pradėti, prasidėti | Macedonian | почнува |
| Maltese | beda | Maori | tīmata |
| Norwegian | begynne, byrja | Persian | آغاز شدن, آغاز کردن, شروع کردن |
| Polish | rozpocząć, rozpoczynać, zacząć, zaczynać | Quechua | qallariy, qallay, tiksiy |
| Russian | начать, начаться, начинать, начинаться, почать, починать, приступать | Spanish | comenzar, iniciar, principiar |
| Swedish | anträda, antvarda, begynna, börja, inleda, inlemma, inmundiga, påbörja | Thai | เริ่ม, เริ่มต้น |
| Vietnamese | bắt đầu |