| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| ベル 鳴らして くれないか？ | Could you get the doorbell, please? |
| 鳴らせ！ | Ring it! |
| 鳴らせば | Tell me two things about your day or I'm gonna hit the truth horn. |
| 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 |
| German | ausloten, erklingen, erschallen, ertönen, schallen, sondieren, tönen | Greek | βολιδοσκοπώ, ηχώ |
| Hungarian | hallatszik, hangzik, pendül | Indonesian | berwawasan |
| Italian | scandagliare, sondare | 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 |