| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Kilahtaa, vilahtaa postiluukku kolahtaa | With a click with a shock Phone will jingle door will knock |
| Kun tämä uusi julkaistaan se kolahtaa teihin. | When this new one comes out, this will knock you over. |
| Käytän hanskoja, koska satuin koskemaan tätä ja kolahdin pöytääni. | The reason why I'm wearing the gloves. I accidentally touched this the other day. I fell and knocked my head on the desk and was out cold for 20 minutes. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | خبط,دق, طرق, قرع, نوك | Catalan | trucar |
| Dutch | aftikken, kloppen | English | knock |
| Estonian | toksima | Faroese | banka |
| French | dégommer, frapper, toquer, tôquer, torcher, trabelsier, trabouler | German | anklopfen, ausknocken, klopfen |
| Hebrew | דפק | Hungarian | bever |
| Icelandic | knýja | Indonesian | mengetuk |
| Italian | bussare, ribussare, urticchiare | Japanese | ノック |
| Latvian | dauzīt, klauvēt, pieklauvēt | Lithuanian | belsti, belstis, pabelsti, pasibelsti |
| Macedonian | бапне, лупа, тропа, тропне, чука, чукне | Polish | dobijać, nokautować, pukać, zapukać |
| Portuguese | estropear | Romanian | ciocăni, fărâma, izbi |
| Russian | колотить, постучать, постучаться, стукать, стукаться, стукнуть, стукнуться, стучать, стучаться | Swedish | banka, knacka, knaka, knalla, knappa, knapra, knarka, knarra, knastra, knata |
| Thai | เขก, เคาะ | Vietnamese | gõ |