| Example in Catalan | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| No et pensis que no ho flairo. | Don't think I can't smell it. |
| Els meus familiars esdeveniren personatges de ficció i hi parlava d'ells com d'estranys. els flaires i la llum formaren els meus primers records. | My family had become characters in a fiction. And l spoke of them as if they were strangers. As far back as l remember, it was the smells and the light that solidified my first memories. |
| amor meu. els flaires i la llum formaren els meus primers records. | Push, my love. "As far back as l remember it was the smells and the light that solidified my first memories. |
| - Sembla bona, e flaira bon. | - It looks good, smells good too. |
| Mas la noiridura... - Sembla bona, e flaira bon. - Evidentament, es de la noiridura Hmong. | But the food… –It looks good, smells good too. –Of course, it's Hmong food. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | ruik | Arabic | شم,نشم |
| Danish | dufte, lugte | Dutch | beruiken, ruiken |
| English | smell | Esperanto | flari, odori |
| Estonian | haistma | Finnish | haista, haistella, tuoksua |
| French | humer | German | riechen, wittern |
| Greek | μυριαναστενάζω, μυρίζω, μυρμηγκιάζω, μυστρίζω, μωλωπίζω, μωραίνω, μωρουδίζω, νανουρίζω | Hungarian | szagol, szimatol |
| Icelandic | lykta | Indonesian | bau, berbau, tercium |
| Italian | annusare, fiutare, odorare, puzzare | Latvian | ostīt, saost, smaržot |
| Lithuanian | kvepėti, pakvipti, pauosti, pauostyti, uosti, užuosti | Macedonian | намириса, помириса |
| Norwegian | lukte, nasa, nase | Persian | بو کردن, بوییدن |
| Polish | pachnąć, pachnieć, powąchać, wąchać, wonieć | Portuguese | cheirar |
| Quechua | mutkhiy, q'apay | Romanian | mirosi |
| Russian | нюхать, обонять, пахнуть, понюхать, почуять, учуивать, учуять, чуять | Spanish | oler |
| Swedish | lukta | Thai | ดม |
| Turkish | koklamak | Vietnamese | đánh hơi, húi |
