| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Jadi dengarkan . | So listen up. |
| Kalian semua, dengarkan aku... | You guys, listen to me, w-- |
| Sekarang dengarkan aku, Lee. | Now listen, Lee. |
| Sekarang dengarkan. | Anyway, now listen. |
| - Tapi dengarkan aku. | Come.. - But listen to me. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | luister | Albanian | degjoj |
| Arabic | أذن,أنصت, نصت | Azeri | dinləmək |
| Catalan | escoltar | Danish | lytte |
| Dutch | luisteren | English | listen |
| Esperanto | aŭskultadi, aŭskulti | Estonian | kuulatama |
| Faroese | lurta | Finnish | kuunnella |
| German | herhören, horchen, zuhören | Greek | εισακούω |
| Hawaiian | hoʻolohe | Hebrew | הקשיב |
| Hungarian | odafigyel | Italian | ascoltare |
| Latvian | klausīties | Lithuanian | išklausyti, klausyti, klausytis, paklausyti, pasiklausyti |
| Macedonian | ислуша, слуша | Maori | whakarongo |
| Norwegian | lytte | Persian | گوش دادن, گوش کردن |
| Polish | nasłuchiwać, odsłuchać, odsłuchiwać, posłuchać, przysłuchać, przysłuchiwać, słuchać, wsłuchać, wsłuchiwać, wysłuchiwać | Portuguese | escuitar, escutar |
| Romanian | asculta | Russian | внимать, внять, послушать, слушать |
| Swedish | lyssna | Thai | ฟัง, รับฟัง |
| Turkish | dinlemek | Vietnamese | lắng nghe, nghe lời |
