| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Olenpas. Ja selkääni särkee ja polveni naksuvat noustessa. | Plus, my back hurts, and my knees crack every time... |
| Anteeksi, polveni naksuvat. | You shall have to forgive the whip-crack of my knees. |
| Minulla on naksuva leuka. | I have a cracking jaw. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | صدع | Danish | sprække |
| Dutch | knappen | English | crack |
| Esperanto | dissplitiĝi,fendiĝi | Estonian | krakkima, plaksuma, praksatama |
| Faroese | skrambla | French | déplomber, fêler, fendiller, fissurer |
| German | knacken, krachen | Greek | ραγίζω |
| Hungarian | hasad, pattan | Icelandic | smella, springa |
| Indonesian | menindak | Italian | craccare, crepare, creparsi, fessurarsi, incrinare, schioccare |
| Japanese | 罅割れ | Lithuanian | įtrūkti, suskilti, tratėti |
| Macedonian | крцка, пукне, распука, се распука | Norwegian | knekke |
| Polish | chruścić, nadpęknąć, pękać, popękać, rozgryźć | Portuguese | craquear, estralar, rachar |
| Romanian | crăpa | Russian | потрескаться, пощёлкать, расседаться, трескаться, треснуть |
| Spanish | agrietar, agrietarse, cascar, cascarse, resquebrajar, resquebrajarse, restallar | Swedish | cracka, crawla, curla, knäcka, knäppa, spricka, spräcka |
| Thai | กะเทาะ, ร้าว | Turkish | çatallaşmak, çatlamak, çatlatmak |