| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| みなさん 微笑んで | One, two, three! Smile, everybody. |
| 微笑んで! | How's this? |
| 微笑んで | Smiling at me. |
| 微笑み うなづくなら それが最良と考えていた | I thought that I could smile, nod my way through it; |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | glimlag | Albanian | buzëqesh |
| Arabic | ابتسم,بسم, تبسم | Catalan | somriure |
| Danish | smile | Dutch | glimlachen |
| English | smile | Esperanto | rideti |
| Faroese | smíla | Finnish | hymyillä, hymytä, myhäillä |
| French | sourire | German | anlächeln, lächeln, schmunzeln |
| Greek | χαμογελάω | Hebrew | חייך |
| Hungarian | mosolyog | Indonesian | tersenyum |
| Italian | arridere, sorridere, sorridersi | Latvian | pasmaidīt, smaidīt |
| Lithuanian | nusišypsoti, šypsotis, šyptelėti | Macedonian | се насмевне, се насмевнува |
| Malay | senyum | Maori | menemene |
| Norwegian | smile | Persian | لبخند زدن |
| Polish | uśmiechać, uśmiechnąć | Portuguese | sorrir |
| Russian | улыбаться, улыбнуться | Spanish | sonreír, sonreírse |
| Swedish | le | Thai | ยิ้ม |
| Turkish | gülümsemek | Vietnamese | mỉm cười |