| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Kau benar-benar berpikir aku akan membiarkan Anda hanyut, Profesor? | You really think I'm going to let you float away, Professor? |
| Gemuk, mereka akan hanyut ke ruang angkasa. | This many will get so fat they'll float away into space. |
| Mereka hanyut keluar dan ada di kejauhan, Anda dapat melihat laut, perairan terbuka, dan jika kita pergi sedikit lebih jauh kita akan melihat Melchior. | They float out and there in the distance, you can see the sea, open water, and if we go a bit further we'll see Melchior. |
| Aku ingin pergi ke Candy Mountain dan hanyut di air mata unicorn. | I want to go to Candy Mountain, and float on the tears of unicorns. |
| Ini hanyut dari hulu. | It's floated down from upstream. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | dryf,sweef | Arabic | طفا |
| Dutch | dobberen, drijven, glijden, zweven | English | float |
| Esperanto | flosi, flosigi | Estonian | floteerima, heljuma, hõljuma, ujutama |
| Faroese | flóta, floyta | Finnish | kellua, kelluttaa, leijailla, lilliä, lillua |
| French | flotter | German | flöhen, flottieren, gleiten, schweben |
| Hungarian | lebeg | Icelandic | fleyta, fljóta |
| Italian | flottare, fluitare, galleggiare | Japanese | 漂う, 浮かぶ, 浮かべる, 浮く, 浮遊 |
| Lithuanian | plūduriuoti | Macedonian | плута |
| Norwegian | flyte, sveve | Polish | rozpisywać, unosić |
| Portuguese | boiar, desencalhar, flutuar | Quechua | tuytuy |
| Romanian | pluti | Spanish | boyar, flotar |
| Swedish | simma | Thai | ลอย |
| Turkish | şamandıralamak | Vietnamese | bềnh bồng, bồng bềnh, lênh đênh, nổi, phao |