| Example in Norwegian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Bare les dette. Vil du fremdeles ikke snakke med meg, greit. Greit. | Just read this, and if you still don't want to talk to me, then I'll never bother you again. |
| Ikke les det. | - Oh, God, don't read that. |
| Sett deg og les et blad eller hør pa radioen, mens jeg varmer suppen. | Go and sit down and read a magazine or listen to the radio while I cook the soup. |
| Vil du vurdere psyken min, så les journalen. | Look, if you want a psych evaluation, you can read the file. |
| Hei! Lkke les bøkene hvis du ikke liker dem, Fritz. | if you don't like the books, don't read 'em, Fritz! |
| Jeg pleier å lese her når jeg er søvnløs. | I come here to read when I am wakeful. |
| Jeg vil lese litt av et brev fra Mac for Dem. | l want to read you part of a letter from Mac. |
| - Jeg kommer ikke til å lese dem. | - I'm not gonna read those. |
| Det er frekt å lese tankene mine, eller Mr Lensherrs, uten min tillatelse. | It's very rude to read my thoughts, or Mr. Lensherr's, without our permission. |
| Ber du ham lese, kan han kaste boken på deg. | If you ask him to read, he might throw the book at you. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | lees | Albanian | lexoj |
| Arabic | قرأ,قرا | Azeri | oxumaq |
| Basque | irakurri | Catalan | llegir |
| Danish | læse | Dutch | aflezen, inlezen, inlichten, lezen, liberaliseren, nalezen, oplezen, oplichten, uitlezen, voorlezen, voorlichten |
| English | read | Esperanto | legi |
| Faroese | lesa | Finnish | lukea |
| French | bouquiner, lire, relire | German | ablesen, lesen |
| Greek | διαβάζω | Hawaiian | heluhelu |
| Hebrew | קרא | Hungarian | lektorál, olvas |
| Icelandic | lesa | Indonesian | baca, baca-baca, berbunyi, membaca, membacakan |
| Italian | leggere | Japanese | 読む, 読書, 拝読 |
| Latvian | nolasīt | Lithuanian | pasiskaityti, paskaityti, persiskaityti, skaityti |
| Macedonian | прочита, чита | Malay | baca |
| Maltese | qara | Maori | pānui |
| Persian | خواندن | Polish | czytać, odczytać, odczytywać, poczytać, przeczytać, wyczytać |
| Portuguese | ler | Quechua | liyiy, ñawilliy, ñawinchay, ñawiriy, ñawiy, qillqaqhaway |
| Romanian | citi | Russian | почитать, прочитать, честь, читать, читаться, читывать |
| Spanish | leer | Swedish | läsa |
| Thai | อ่าน | Turkish | okumak, okunmak |
| Vietnamese | đọc, giàng, giảng, giạng, giăng, giằng |