| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| "Kamu memegang sebuah sistem evaluasi," | "You're holding an evaluation system," |
| Dia hanya memiliki satu slot ekspansi, dan memegang kartu memori nya. | He has only one expansion slot, and it holds his memory card. |
| Atau jika aku hanya memegang ide. | Or if I was just holding onto an idea. |
| Apa kamu tidak sanggup memegang sebuah tombak? | Are you not capable of holding a spear? |
| - Tidak terlihat seperti itu ketika dia memegang pisau | - That's not how he looked holding the knife |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danish | holde | Dutch | vasthouden |
| English | hold | Esperanto | teni |
| Faroese | halda | Finnish | pidellä |
| French | détenir,enfermer, enferrer, renfermer | German | halten, vorhalten |
| Greek | βαστώ, κρατώ, πιάνω, χωρώ | Icelandic | gegna, rúma |
| Italian | detenere, tenere, trattenere | Japanese | 催す, 在任, 持つ, 占める, 保有, 留める |
| Latvian | turēt | Lithuanian | laikyti, prilaikyti |
| Macedonian | држи, одржи | Malay | memegang, pegang |
| Maori | pupuri | Norwegian | halda, holde |
| Polish | chwytać, piastować, potrzymać, przytrzymać, przytrzymywać, trzymać, zmieścić | Portuguese | apossar, assenhorear, segurar |
| Romanian | ține | Russian | держать, подержать, придержать, придерживать, придерживаться |
| Spanish | afianzarse, sostener, sostenerse | Swedish | hålla, hålla i |
| Thai | กุม, ถือ, ยุด | Turkish | tutmak, tutunmak |
| Vietnamese | cầm, giũ, giú, giữ vững, nắm giữ, nín |
