| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Se lahottaa aivosi. | It's gonna rot your brain. |
| TV lahottaa aivot. | Everyone knows TV rots your brain. |
| - En anna hänen lahota ikiajoiksi tämän vankilan sisällä. | I'm not gonna let him rot for all eternity inside this prison. |
| -Säkki ei ole ehtinyt lahota. | No recently or the water would have rotted the bag. |
| Ja ruumiihinsa lahota | And rot inside a corpse's shell |
| Niitä kutsutaan haavoiksi. Nämä haavat eivät parane. Ne alkavat lahota. | Wounds George, that's what they're called, and these wounds will not heal, they'll be invaded by rot, it'll move into the core wood. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | تعفن | Dutch | rotten,verrotten, wegrotten |
| English | rot | Esperanto | putri |
| Estonian | määnduma | Greek | σαπίζω, ταγγίζω |
| Hungarian | rohad | Icelandic | fúna, rotna |
| Indonesian | membusuk | Italian | marcire |
| Japanese | 腐る, 腐敗 | Lithuanian | supūti |
| Macedonian | скапе, скапува | Norwegian | råtne |
| Polish | butwieć, gnić, gnoić, murszeć, odgnić, spróchnieć, wygnić, zbutwieć | Portuguese | apodrecer |
| Quechua | ismuy | Romanian | putrezi |
| Russian | гнить, истлевать, истлеть, сгнить, тлеть | Spanish | agusanar, empodrecer, pudrir, pudrirse |
| Swedish | rubba, ruttna, röta, röva, rövknulla | Vietnamese | thui, thụi |