| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Tälle ei tehty niin... Mutta saahan sitä haaveksia. | Not this one, but... you can dream, can't you? |
| Siitä minä haaveksin, enkä aio luopua siitä. | It's my dream. And I don't want to give up on that dream. |
| Tiedättekö, pienenä lapsena - haaveksin aina seisovani historian vierellä ja suojelevani muita - ehkä jopa itse presidenttiä. | You know, as a little kid... I always dreamt about standing on the sidelines of history, protecting others-- maybe even the president himself. |
| Söimme kaikki donitsit, kun haaveksit. | While you were daydreaming, we ate all the doughnuts. |
| Olen haaveksinut tästä siitä saakka, kun poikana huijasin kavereiden ruokarahat itselleni. | Les: You know, I've dreamed of a scheme like this every since I was a mere lad, conning my school fellows out of their lunch money. - Lunch? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | droom | Albanian | ëndërroj |
| Arabic | حلم,درم | Catalan | somiar |
| Danish | drømme | Dutch | dromen, wegdromen |
| English | dream | Esperanto | sonĝi |
| Estonian | unelema | Faroese | droyma |
| French | rêver, songer | German | träumen |
| Greek | ονειρεύομαι | Hungarian | álmodik |
| Indonesian | bermimpi, mengimpi, mengimpikan, mimpi | Italian | sognare |
| Japanese | 夢見る, 夢想 | Latvian | sapņot |
| Lithuanian | pasapnuoti, pasvajoti, sapnuoti, sapnuotis, svajoti | Macedonian | се сони, сони, сонува |
| Malay | bermimpi, mimpi | Maltese | ħolom |
| Norwegian | drømme, drøyma, drøyme | Persian | خواب دیدن |
| Polish | marzyć, podumać, pomarzyć, prześnić, śnić, zamarzyć, zaroić | Portuguese | sonhar |
| Quechua | musquy | Romanian | visa |
| Russian | грезить, мечтать, присниться, сниться | Spanish | asonar, soñar |
| Swedish | drömma | Thai | ทรงพระสุบิน, ฝัน |
| Turkish | düş görmek, hayal kurmak, hayallemek | Vietnamese | chiêm bao, giấc, mò, mó, mộ, mơ, mỡ, mớ, mơ màng, mở mang, mơ tưởng, mơ ước, ước mơ |