| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Bis du dich in irgendein leuchtendes Plastikteil verbeißt und jemand mit einem knallbunten Shirt dich aus deinem Wasser-Zuhause holt, dich wiegt, ausmisst und dich dann zurück in die Luft schleudert. | Until you bite down on some shiny piece of plastic and somebody with a brightly colored shirt pulls you from your watery home, weighs you, measures you, and flings you back into the air. |
| Er sprang meinen Partner an und verbiss sich in seinen Arm. | He jumped right on my partner and bit his arm. Nothing could make him come loose. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | byt | Albanian | kafshoj |
| Arabic | عض,عضه, نعض | Azeri | dişləmək |
| Catalan | mossegar | Danish | bide |
| Dutch | bijten, knauwen, knechten, vastbijten | English | bite |
| Esperanto | mordi | Faroese | bíta |
| Finnish | haukata, purra | French | mordre |
| Greek | δαγκάνω, δαγκώνω, δασώνω | Hungarian | harap, mar |
| Indonesian | gigit, menggigit | Italian | abboccare, acceffare, addentare, mordere, morsicare |
| Japanese | 噛む | Latvian | kost |
| Lithuanian | įkąsti, kandžioti, pakandžioti, perkąsti | Macedonian | гризе, гризне, каса, касне |
| Malay | gigit | Maltese | gidem |
| Norwegian | bite | Persian | گزیدن |
| Polish | gryźć, kasać, kąsać, nadjeść, nagryzać, pokąsać, przegryźć, przygryzać, przygryźć, ugryźć, ukąsić, wgryzać, wgryźć, zagryzać, zagryźć | Portuguese | abocanhar, morder |
| Quechua | kaniy, khachuy | Romanian | înțepa, mușca |
| Russian | закусить, закусывать, кусать, кусаться, прикусить, прикусывать, укусить, язвить | Spanish | morder, picar |
| Swedish | bita, bitas, nappa | Thai | กัด, เกาะแกะ |
| Turkish | ısırmak | Vietnamese | cắn, đớp |