| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Atau kau mau menerima kami? | Or do you want to take bearing on us? |
| Jika kau mau, aku akan meninggalkan perusahaan tapi aku akan tinggal di Korea. | If you want, I will leave the company but I will stay in Korea. |
| - Aku tak mau menuntutnya. | - I don't want to press charges. |
| Aku mau berbincang denganmu sendirian. | I wanted to talk to you alone. |
| - Ya, apa kamu tidak mau? | You don't want to? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | wil | Albanian | dua |
| Arabic | أراد | Basque | nahi izan |
| Catalan | voler | Dutch | willen |
| English | want | Esperanto | voli |
| Finnish | haluta,hotsittaa, tahtoa | Greek | θέλω |
| Hawaiian | makemake | Hebrew | רצה |
| Hungarian | akar | Italian | volere |
| Japanese | 欲する | Latvian | gribēt |
| Lithuanian | norėti, norėtis | Macedonian | сака |
| Malay | mahu, mau | Maltese | ried |
| Maori | hiahia | Norwegian | vilja |
| Persian | خواستن | Polish | chcieć |
| Portuguese | pretender, querer | Quechua | munay |
| Romanian | vrea | Russian | захотеться, хотеть, хотеться |
| Thai | ต้องราชประสงค์, อยาก | Turkish | istemek |
| Vietnamese | muốn |