| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Es kann schneien, dann tauen und der Fluss plötzlich anschwellen. | It snows one day, melts the next. The river could rise unexpectedly. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ذاب,ذب | Catalan | fondre |
| Dutch | afsmelten, smelten, versmelten, wegsmelten | English | melt |
| Esperanto | degeli, degeligi, fandi, fandigi, fandiĝi | Faroese | tiðna |
| Finnish | sulaa, sulattaa | French | dégeler, dégenrer, fondre |
| Greek | λιώνω, τήκω | Hebrew | נמס |
| Hungarian | olvad, olvaszt | Icelandic | bræða |
| Indonesian | leleh, melebur, meleleh, mencair, mengharukan | Italian | sciogliere, sgelare, solvere, squagliare, squagliarsi, struggere |
| Japanese | 解ける, 融解, 溶かす, 溶融 | Latvian | kausēt, sakust |
| Lithuanian | išlydyti, ištirpti, lydyti, lydytis, tirpdyti, tirpti | Macedonian | се стопи, се топи, стопи, топи |
| Norwegian | smelte | Persian | گداختن |
| Polish | natapiać, przetapiać, rozpływać, rozpuszczać, roztapiać, roztopić, stopić, stopnieć, topić, topnieć, wytopić | Quechua | unuyay |
| Romanian | topi | Russian | плавить, расплавить, расплавлять, растаять, таять |
| Spanish | derretir, derretirse, deshelar | Swedish | smälta |
| Thai | ละลาย, หลอม | Turkish | ergimek, ergitmek, erimek, eritmek |
| Vietnamese | nóng chảy, nồng cháy, tan, tan rã |