| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Den alten Schachteln des Sparbüchl fladern, des kannst! | To steal the old bag's bankbook! |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | سرق,لص | Danish | jøde, rane, stjæle |
| Dutch | ontstelen, ontvreemden, stelen | English | steal |
| Faroese | stjala | Finnish | nyysiä, pölliä, rosmota, varastaa |
| Greek | κλέβω | Hebrew | גנב |
| Hungarian | csór, ellop, lop | Indonesian | mencuri, menggondol |
| Italian | involare, rubare, trafugare | Japanese | 掻っ払う, 盗む |
| Latvian | zagt | Lithuanian | apsivogti, apšvarinti, pasivogti, pavogti, privogti, vogti |
| Macedonian | краде | Malay | curi, mencuri |
| Maltese | seraq | Maori | whānako |
| Norwegian | stela, stjele | Persian | دزدی کردن, دزدیدن |
| Polish | kraść, nakraść, skraść, ukraść, wykraść | Portuguese | furtar, roubar, surripiar, surrupiar |
| Quechua | suway | Romanian | fura |
| Russian | воровать, красть, натаскивать, проскальзывать, проскользнуть, своровать, спиздить, украсть | Spanish | afanar, arramblar, arramlar, fachar, hurtar, rapiñar |
| Swedish | stjäla | Thai | ขโมย, จิก |
| Turkish | çalmak | Vietnamese | ăn cắp, ăn trộm, giựt, trộm |