| Example in Spanish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Una debilidad de carácter de la que no adolecemos. | A weakness of character that we do not suffer from. |
| Ruan Sternwood, fue detenido en el aeropuerto adoleciendo de una herida de bala en el estómago. | Ruan Sternwood was picked up at city airport suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | ly | Catalan | patir |
| Danish | lide | Dutch | lijden,lijken |
| English | suffer | Esperanto | suferi |
| Estonian | kahjustuma | French | pâtir |
| German | kranken, leiden | Greek | αναξιοπαθώ, αναπαλαιώνω, παθαίνω, υποφέρω |
| Hebrew | סבל | Hungarian | elszenved, szenved |
| Indonesian | menderita | Italian | dolorare, patire, penare, soffrire, subirsi, tribolare |
| Japanese | 苦しむ, 苦悩, 目にあう | Latvian | ciest, izciest |
| Lithuanian | kentėti, pakentėti | Macedonian | пати, пропати, се мачи |
| Norwegian | lide | Polish | chorować, cierpieć, pocierpieć, pokutować, przecierpieć, ścierpieć, ucierpieć, ulec |
| Portuguese | padecer, penar, sofrer | Quechua | muchuy |
| Romanian | pătimi, suferi | Russian | выстрадать, маяться, пострадать, претерпевать, претерпеть, страдать |
| Swedish | lida, liera | Thai | ประสบ |
| Turkish | acı çekmek | Vietnamese | cam chịu |