| Example in Estonian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| "Seisa halli kivi kõrval kui vainurästas toksib, ...ja viimane loojuv päikesekiir ...paistab lukuaugu peale" | "Stand by the gray stone when the thrush knocks and the last light of the setting sun will shine upon the keyhole." |
| Seisa halli kivi kõrval, kui vainurästas toksib ning Durini päeva loojuva päikese viimane kiir paistab lukuaugu peale. | "Stand by the gray stone when the thrush knocks and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the keyhole." |
| - Nüüd pead sa lihtsalt toksima palju litse. | So what you just got to do is... just get you a bunch of these hood rats... run through them, just knock them out. Boom, boom, boom. |
| -Me peaksime mõnikord toksima. | - We should knock it around sometime. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | خبط,دق, طرق, قرع, نوك | Catalan | trucar |
| Dutch | aftikken, kloppen | English | knock |
| Faroese | banka | Finnish | kalauttaa, kolahtaa, kolauttaa, kolkutella, kolkuttaa, koputella, koputtaa |
| French | dégommer, frapper, toquer, tôquer, torcher, trabelsier, trabouler | German | anklopfen, ausknocken, klopfen |
| Hebrew | דפק | Hungarian | bever |
| Icelandic | knýja | Indonesian | mengetuk |
| Italian | bussare, ribussare, urticchiare | Japanese | ノック |
| Latvian | dauzīt, klauvēt, pieklauvēt | Lithuanian | belsti, belstis, pabelsti, pasibelsti |
| Macedonian | бапне, лупа, тропа, тропне, чука, чукне | Polish | dobijać, nokautować, pukać, zapukać |
| Portuguese | estropear | Romanian | ciocăni, fărâma, izbi |
| Russian | колотить, постучать, постучаться, стукать, стукаться, стукнуть, стукнуться, стучать, стучаться | Swedish | banka, knacka, knaka, knalla, knappa, knapra, knarka, knarra, knastra, knata |
| Thai | เขก, เคาะ | Vietnamese | gõ |
