| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Jika saja kita bisa menemukan satu, bisnis kita pasti akan membaik. | If only we could find one. Our business will definitely improve. |
| Tapi keadaan mulai membaik. | But things have improved. |
| Keadaan emosionalmu telah membaik. | Your emotional state has improved. |
| -Aku tidak mengatakan bahwa saya tidak membaik. | I didn't say I haven't improved. |
| dalam satu dekade, tagihan naik lebih dari 200%, sedangkan layanan 200%, tidak jauh membaik mereka jauh lebih buruk. | Within a decade, bills rose more that 200%, whereas services did not improve by 200%, they got much worse. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | mirësoj,përmirësoj | Arabic | تحسن |
| Catalan | millorar | Dutch | verbeteren |
| English | improve | Faroese | batna |
| Finnish | kohentua, parantaa, parantua, parata, tsempata | French | améliorer, perfectionner, s’améliorer |
| German | aufbessern, meliorieren | Greek | βελτιώνομαι, βελτιώνω |
| Hawaiian | hoʻomaikaʻi | Hungarian | javít, javul, megjavít |
| Icelandic | bæta, skána | Italian | migliorare, migliorarsi |
| Japanese | 改善, 向上, 上達, 進歩 | Latvian | uzlabot |
| Lithuanian | gerinti, pagerėti, pagerinti, pasitaisyti, patobulinti, tobulinti | Macedonian | подобри, подобрува, се подобрува |
| Norwegian | bedre, betra, forbedre, forbetra | Polish | doskonalić, douczać, polepszać, polepszyć, udoskonalać, udoskonalić, ulepszać, ulepszyć, usprawniać, usprawnić, wydobrzeć |
| Portuguese | melhorar | Romanian | îmbunătăți |
| Russian | улучшать, улучшаться, улучшить, улучшиться | Spanish | mejorarse, perfeccionarse, remendar |
| Swedish | bättra, förbättra, putsa | Thai | กระเตื้อง, เงยหน้าอ้าปาก, ปรับปรุง |
| Turkish | ilerletmek | Vietnamese | cải biến, cải lương, cải thiện, cải tiến |