| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Ich würde liebend gern weiter mir dir schnacken, aber ich muss noch in Brentwood eine Golf Witwe marinieren. | I'd love to stay and chitchat with you, but I've got a golf widow marinating in brentwood. |
| Lass uns zuerst ein wenig schnacken. | Let's have a little chitchat first. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalan | xatejar | Dutch | babbelen,bomen, chatten, keuvelen, kletsen |
| English | chat | Esperanto | babili |
| Estonian | vestlema | Finnish | chatata, jutella, jutustaa, kertoilla, pakista, rupatella |
| French | bavarder, chater, chatter, clavarder, claveliser, deviser, papoter, tchatcher, tchater, tchatter | Hungarian | cseveg |
| Icelandic | masa, skrafa | Indonesian | kongko, mengobrol, obrol |
| Italian | chattare, chiacchierare | Japanese | 漫談 |
| Latvian | pļāpāt | Lithuanian | paplepėti, plepėti |
| Malay | mengobrol | Norwegian | chatte, prate |
| Polish | gawędzić, pogadywać, pogawędzić | Portuguese | bater papo, papear, prosear |
| Russian | поболтать | Spanish | charlar, charlotear, platicar |
| Thai | คุย | Vietnamese | tám |