| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Aber ach, oh meine Mariana, du meine Frau und alles, was ich liebe das Warten zehrt an mir. | But, oh, Mariana... my wife and all I love... how the waiting gnaws at me. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | نخر | Catalan | rosegar |
| Dutch | afkluiven,afknagen, kluiven, knagen | English | gnaw |
| Finnish | jyrsiä, järsiä, jäytää, kaluta, kalvaa, nakertaa | French | ronger, se ronger, se rosifier, se roter, se rôtir, se rouler, se routiner, se rouvrir, se royaumer, se rudéraliser, se ruer, se ruiner, se rupturer |
| Hungarian | rágcsál | Icelandic | naga |
| Indonesian | menggerogoti | Italian | mordicchiare, rodere, rosicare, rosicchiare |
| Lithuanian | graužti, pagraužti | Norwegian | gnage |
| Polish | nadgryzać, nadgryźć, obgryzać, zeźreć, zeżreć | Portuguese | rilhar, roer |
| Romanian | roade | Russian | глодать, грызть |
| Spanish | roer | Swedish | gnaga |
| Turkish | eziyet vermek, kemirmek | Vietnamese | găm, gặm, gầm |