| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Maaf aku belum bisa membacakan cerita untukmu. | I'm sorry I haven't been able to be here to read to you. |
| Anda membacakan. | You better read it. |
| Aku akan membacakan sesuatu untuk kalian. / Kau tidak akan mengatakan.. | - I'm gonna read to you. - You're not gonna want to say...! |
| "Sebelum membacakan pesan anda... | "Before you read your message... |
| Karena sementara ayah memelukmu di pangkuannya dan membacakan untukmu, aku selalu duduk di luar pintu itu. | Because while Father held you on his lap and read to you, your sister's seat was always outside that door. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | lees | Albanian | lexoj |
| Arabic | قرأ,قرا | Azeri | oxumaq |
| Basque | irakurri | Catalan | llegir |
| Danish | læse | Dutch | aflezen, inlezen, inlichten, lezen, liberaliseren, nalezen, oplezen, oplichten, uitlezen, voorlezen, voorlichten |
| English | read | Esperanto | legi |
| Faroese | lesa | Finnish | lukea |
| French | bouquiner, lire, relire | German | ablesen, lesen |
| Greek | διαβάζω | Hawaiian | heluhelu |
| Hebrew | קרא | Hungarian | lektorál, olvas |
| Icelandic | lesa | Italian | leggere |
| Japanese | 読む, 読書, 拝読 | Latvian | nolasīt |
| Lithuanian | pasiskaityti, paskaityti, persiskaityti, skaityti | Macedonian | прочита, чита |
| Malay | baca | Maltese | qara |
| Maori | pānui | Norwegian | lesa, lese |
| Persian | خواندن | Polish | czytać, odczytać, odczytywać, poczytać, przeczytać, wyczytać |
| Portuguese | ler | Quechua | liyiy, ñawilliy, ñawinchay, ñawiriy, ñawiy, qillqaqhaway |
| Romanian | citi | Russian | почитать, прочитать, честь, читать, читаться, читывать |
| Spanish | leer | Swedish | läsa |
| Thai | อ่าน | Turkish | okumak, okunmak |
| Vietnamese | đọc, giàng, giảng, giạng, giăng, giằng |