| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Moderni taistelukenttä on elektroninen myrsky - jossa hävittäjät, tankit, tietokoneet ja ohjukset vain hurisevat. | The modern battlefield is a blizzard... a transparent, electronic blizzard... with planes and tanks... and computers and missiles all humming away... and into that storm flies our fighter. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | دندن | Dutch | brommen,neuriën |
| English | hum | Estonian | umisema |
| French | fredonner, vrombir | German | summen |
| Greek | βουίζω, βουλιάζω, βουλίζω | Hungarian | dúdol, zsong |
| Icelandic | raula | Italian | canticchiare |
| Lithuanian | niūniuoti, zysti, zyzti | Macedonian | потпевнува |
| Norwegian | nynne | Polish | bzyknąć, nucić, podśpiewywać, szumieć, zanucić |
| Portuguese | cantarolar | Russian | жужжать, напевать, напеть, прогудеть |
| Spanish | tararear, tatarear, zumbar | Swedish | gnola, gnugga, sorla |
| Turkish | mırıldanmak |
