| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Но я... умею колоть дрова. | But, I was a rail splitter. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | فرق,فطر, فلق | Catalan | fendre |
| Danish | spalte | Dutch | splijten, splitsen |
| English | split | Esperanto | disfendi, fendetiĝi, fendi |
| Estonian | kahestuma, lõhustuma | Finnish | halkoa, lohjeta, lohkaista, splitata |
| French | bifurquer, fendre, fragmenter | German | spalten |
| Icelandic | kljúfa, klofna | Indonesian | belah, berpisah, terbelah, terpecah |
| Italian | frazionarsi, smembrarsi | Japanese | 分割, 劈く |
| Lithuanian | perskelti, plyšti, skaldyti, skilti, suskaldyti | Macedonian | расцепи |
| Maltese | fired | Norwegian | splitte |
| Polish | łupać, przełupać, rozłupać, rozłupywać, rozszczepiać, rozszczepić | Portuguese | cindir, fender |
| Quechua | laray, puchqay | Romanian | despica, zdrobi |
| Spanish | bifurcarse, cuartearse, escindir, escindirse, frangir, hender, partirse, rajar | Swedish | splittra |
| Thai | จัก | Turkish | parçalanmak, yarmak |
| Vietnamese | chẻ |