| Example in Malay | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Jika kau gagal dalam tesnya, seperti yang lainnya, kau bebas untuk pergi. | If you failed the test, as all others did, you were free to leave. |
| Kau gagal melindungi isteri kau... ...dan bayi yang dikandung dia. | You failed to protect your wife and the baby that she was carrying. |
| Dan kau gagal... / Ya ! ...untuk melindunginya. / Ya ! | - And that you failed... - Yes! ...to protect her. - Yes! |
| Itu yang kita gagal untuk memahami tentang wanita. | It's what we fail to grasp about women. |
| Suatu hari, laki-laki itu gagal dalam studinya. | One day, the poor boy failed, the pressure of studies defeating him. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | فشل | Catalan | fracassar |
| Danish | fejle,kikse, svigte | Dutch | buizen, falen, mankeren, mislukken |
| English | fail | Esperanto | bankroti, fiaski, malsukcesi |
| Estonian | ikalduma | Faroese | miseydnast |
| Finnish | epäonnistua, mennä myttyyn | French | défaillir, faillir, recaler |
| German | ausfallen, fallieren, misslingen, scheitern, verfehlen, versagen | Greek | αποτυγχάνω, αποτυχαίνω |
| Japanese | 失敗, 抜かる | Lithuanian | žlugti |
| Macedonian | потфрли | Norwegian | svikta |
| Polish | bankrutować, defektować, omieszkać, szwankować, zawieść | Portuguese | falhar, fracassar, quebrar a cara |
| Russian | преминуть | Spanish | fallar, fracasar, malograrse |
| Swedish | fallera, falna, falsifiera, famla, köra, mankera, misslyckas | Thai | คว้าน้ำเหลว, สอบตก, หลุดมือ |
| Turkish | arızalanmak | Vietnamese | tàn tạ |