| Example in Esperanto | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Unue vi seksincitis, kaj poste returnis vian pugon al mi, ftirulino! | She turns on and then turns her ass away. |
| Alice returnis hejmen frue de sia laboro kun forta kapdoloro. | Alice returned home early from work with a severe headache. |
| Li returnis hejmen. | He went back home. |
| Post la interrompo mi returnis al mia legado, sed mi forgesis kie mi interrompiĝis. | After the interruption I went back to my reading but forgot where I'd left off. |
| Se ni vidos unun el ili, ne returnu vin. | If you see anyone, don't look right or left. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | draai | Danish | dreje,vende |
| English | turn | Estonian | keerama, pöörama, pöörduma |
| Faroese | snúgva, venda | French | changer, désertifier, se tourner, tourner, virer |
| German | drehen, kurbeln, umdrehen | Greek | γυρίζω, γυρνώ, στρέφω, στρίβω, τρέπω |
| Hungarian | fordít, fordul, tér, térít | Icelandic | fletta, hverfa, venda |
| Italian | girare, inflettere, rigirare, rivolgere, rivoltare, svoltare, volgersi, voltare | Japanese | 回す, 回る, 転ずる |
| Lithuanian | atsisukti, pasisukti, pasukti, perjungti, sukakti, sukti | Spanish | girar, tornear, transformarse, voltear |