| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - hu... berkata melayang... | - Ooh, speaking of floating... |
| Disinilah kita berada, melayang dengan tenang dilangit. | Here we are, floating peacefully in the sky. |
| Peter, jam 1:40 p.m di cabang utama The New York Public Library di Fifth Avenue 10 orang menyaksikan sesuatu yang melayang bebas, seluruh badan, penampakan uap. | Peter, at 1:40 p.m., at the main branch... of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue... ten people witnessed... a free-floating, full-torso vaporous apparition. |
| Charlie melayang satu inci di atas kanvas malam itu. | Charlie was floating inches off the canvas that night. |
| - "dan gambarnya melayang di sampingku. | - uh, and his image floats beside me. |
| 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 |