| Example in Malay | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Kau tertawa, ya kan? | You laughed! Did you not? |
| Karena aku tidak tertawa. | 'Cause I'm not laughing. |
| Apakah Anda siap untuk tertawa? | Are you ready to laugh? |
| Dan saat dia bakal tertawa, itu membuatku merasa Aku orangnya lucu. | And when he would laugh, it made me feel like I was really funny. |
| Aku akan tertawa padamu, tapi kamu karus katakan padaku. | I will laugh at you, but you still have to tell me. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | lag | Albanian | qesh |
| Arabic | أضحك,ضحك | Azeri | gülmək |
| Catalan | riure | Danish | grine, le |
| Dutch | lachen | English | laugh |
| Esperanto | ekridi, ridegi, ridigi | Estonian | naerma |
| Faroese | flenna, læa | Finnish | hahattaa, nauraa |
| French | marrer, rire, se marrer, se martériser | German | lachen |
| Greek | γελώ | Hawaiian | ʻakaʻaka |
| Hungarian | kacag, nevet | Icelandic | hlæja |
| Indonesian | menertawakan, tertawa | Italian | ridere |
| Latvian | smieties | Lithuanian | juoktis, kvatotis, nusijuokti, pasijuokti |
| Macedonian | се насмее, се смее | Maltese | daħak |
| Norwegian | ale | Persian | خندسن, خندیدن |
| Polish | pośmiać, roześmiać, śmiać, uśmiać, wyśmiać, zaśmiać | Portuguese | rir |
| Quechua | asiy | Romanian | râde |
| Russian | засмеяться, посмеяться, смешить, смеяться | Spanish | reír, reírse |
| Swedish | skratta, skräckslå, skräda, skrälla | Thai | ขรรม, ขำ, หัวเราะ |
| Vietnamese | cười, cưỡi, cười chê, phì cười |