| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Mitä sä venttaat? | - What are you waiting for ! |
| "Mitä venttaatte, valkonaamat? | Hey, white boys, what you waiting for? That hole ain't gonna dig itself. |
| Mitä te venttaatte? | What you waiting for? - Come on. - All right! |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | wag | Arabic | انتظر |
| Azeri | gözləmək | Catalan | esperar,tardar |
| Danish | vente | Dutch | wachten |
| English | wait | Faroese | bíða |
| German | kellnern, warten | Greek | περιμένω |
| Hebrew | חיכה | Hungarian | vár, várakozik |
| Icelandic | bíða | Indonesian | menunggu, menunggui, tunggu |
| Japanese | 待つ | Latvian | gaidīt, pagaidīt |
| Lithuanian | laukti, palaukti, palūkėti, pralaukti | Macedonian | чека |
| Malay | menunggu, tunggu | Maori | tatari |
| Norwegian | bie, venta | Persian | صبر کردن |
| Polish | czekać, doczekać, odczekać, poczekać, przeczekać, zaczekać | Portuguese | esperar |
| Quechua | suyay | Romanian | adăsta |
| Russian | ждать, обождать, поджидать, подождать | Spanish | aguardar |
| Swedish | vänta | Thai | คอย, รอ, รา |
| Turkish | beklemek, bekletmek | Vietnamese | chờ |