| Example in Malay | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Bisa ku pinjam itu? | Can I borrow your umbrella? |
| Boleh pinjam pulpenmu? | Can I borrow a pen? |
| Mustahil kami dapat "izin resmi"... ...kemudian kami ingat bahwa kau punya "beberapa anak disekitarmu". Jadi "kami pinjam 1". | We couldn't do it legally, but then we remembered you always had a few spare kids hanging around... so we borrowed one. |
| Biarkan aku pinjam gaun yang kau beli! | Let me borrow the dress you bought! |
| Ya, aku boleh ke kampung itu dan pinjam telefon. | Yeah, I could walk down to the village, ask to borrow a phone. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalan | manllevar | Danish | låne |
| Dutch | inlenen,inleveren, lenen, ontlenen | English | borrow |
| Esperanto | deprunti, pruntepreni, prunti, pruntopreni | Estonian | laenama |
| German | ausborgen, entlehnen, entleihen | Greek | δανείζομαι |
| Hungarian | kölcsönkér | Indonesian | meminjam, pinjam |
| Japanese | 借りる, 拝借 | Latvian | aizņemties |
| Lithuanian | pasiskolinti, skolintis | Macedonian | позајми, позајмува |
| Norwegian | låne | Polish | dopożyczać, pożyczać, pożyczyć, wypożyczać, zapożyczać, zapożyczyć |
| Russian | занимать, занять | Spanish | emprestar |
| Swedish | låna | Thai | กู้, ขอยืม, ยืม |
| Vietnamese | mượn |