| Example in Spanish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Si nadie los pune, ellos no pararán nunca. | If no one punishes them, they'll never stop. |
| ¡Si su cliente desacata la corte más una vez, será punido! | If your client steps out of line one more time, he'll be punished. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | عاقب,عذب | Catalan | penar, punir |
| Dutch | afstraffen, bestraffen, bestralen, straffen | English | punish |
| Faroese | sekta | Finnish | rangaista |
| French | punir, pupiller, pupiniser | German | abstrafen, bestrafen, strafen |
| Greek | τιμωρώ | Hungarian | büntet, megbüntet |
| Icelandic | refsa | Indonesian | menghukum |
| Italian | castigare, punire, punirsi | Japanese | お仕置き, 成敗, 懲罰, 罰する |
| Lithuanian | bausti, nubausti | Macedonian | казни, казнува, накаже |
| Malay | menghukum | Norwegian | straffe |
| Persian | مجازات کردن | Polish | karać, pokarać, ukarać |
| Portuguese | castigar, punir | Quechua | maqakuy |
| Romanian | pedepsi | Russian | карать, наказать, наказывать, покарать |
| Swedish | bestraffa, straffa | Thai | ลงโทษ |
| Turkish | cezalandırmak | Vietnamese | trách phạt, trừng trị |