| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Tämä saattaa hieman kirpaista. | Okay, this might hurt just a little bit. |
| Tämä voi vähän kirpaista. | Here. This might hurt a little. |
| - Se kirpaisee vain hetken. | - Don't worry. It only hurts for a moment. |
| - Totuus kirpaisee. | The truth hurts. |
| Erehtyminen kirpaisee. En erehtynyt. | I'm sorry, it hurts to be wrong, doesn't it, Hermann? |
| Häviäminen kirpaisee. | Yeah, but... it hurts to lose. |
| Kerran se kirpaisee. | I mean, it only hurts for a minute. |
| Vakuutuskuviot kirpaisevat, mutta olen kunnossa, sinun ansiostasi. | The insurance forms are gonna hurt worse than the stinger. But I'm fine, thanks to you. |
| - Se varmasti kirpaisi. | Now, that... that had to hurt. |
| -Tuo juttu kirpaisi. | That hurts. |
| Nyt kirpaisi. | Oh, I'm hurt. You don't trust me. |
| Se kirpaisi. | That hurts. |
| Se kyllä kirpaisi. | That bloody hurt. |
| - Ei se niitä kirpaise, vai? | And what they don't know won't hurt them. |
| Lupaan, ettei se kauaa kirpaise. | It'll only hurt for a moment, I promise. |
| Eihän se pahasti kirpaissut? | Didn't hurt much, did it? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | plagoj | Arabic | آلم,أذي, ضرأ, ضرا |
| Azeri | yaralamaq | Catalan | doldre |
| Dutch | bezeren, blèren, blesseren, kwellen | English | hurt |
| Esperanto | vundi, vundiĝi | Faroese | merja, pína, virkja |
| French | blesser, endolorir | German | leidtun, schaden, schmerzen, verletzen, weh tun, wehtun |
| Greek | βλάπτομαι | Hawaiian | ʻeha |
| Hebrew | פגע | Hungarian | bánt, fáj, megárt, sebez |
| Icelandic | meiða | Indonesian | melukai, menyakiti |
| Italian | ferirsi, ledere | Japanese | 痛む |
| Latvian | sāpēt | Lithuanian | nuskriausti, skaudėti, skaudinti, sužaloti, sužeisti, užgauti |
| Macedonian | боли, повреди, повредува | Norwegian | smerte |
| Persian | درد گرفتن | Polish | boleć, dolegać, kaleczyć, poranić, ranić, skaleczyć, skrzywdzić, urazić, uwierać, zaboleć, zranić |
| Portuguese | doer, ferir, machucar | Quechua | nanay |
| Romanian | durea, răni | Spanish | doler |
| Swedish | möda | Turkish | canını acıtmak, canını yakmak, incinmek, incitmek |
| Vietnamese | đau lòng, làm dấu |