| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Много бродяг сиживали у меня в кухне, но такой маленький в первые. | He must be the smallest tramp to have sat in my kitchen. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | sit | Arabic | جلس |
| Azeri | oturmaq | Catalan | seure |
| Danish | sidde | Dutch | tegenzitten,zitten |
| English | sit | Esperanto | sidadi |
| Estonian | poseerima | Faroese | sita |
| Finnish | istua | French | s’assécher, s’asseoir, s’asservir, s’assimiler |
| German | sitzen | Greek | κάθομαι |
| Hawaiian | noho | Hebrew | ישב |
| Hungarian | ül | Icelandic | sitja |
| Indonesian | duduk | Italian | sedere |
| Japanese | 座る | Latvian | sēdēt |
| Lithuanian | įsėsti | Macedonian | седи |
| Malay | duduk | Norwegian | sitja, sitte |
| Persian | نشستن | Polish | obradować, obsiąść, posiadywać, posiedzieć, przesiadywać, przysiadać, przysiąść, siadywać, siedzieć, wysiedzieć, zasiąść |
| Quechua | takuy, tiyay | Romanian | ședea |
| Spanish | encobar, sentarse | Swedish | sitta |
| Thai | นั่ง, นั่งพิจารณา, ออกนั่งพิจารณา | Turkish | oturmak, oturulabilmek, oturulmak, üzerine oturmak |
| Vietnamese | loi ngoi, ngoi, ngõi, ngồi |