| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Mengapa kau sering sekali memintal? | Why do you spin so much? |
| Ayolah, seperti laba-laba yg memintal sarangnya. | Come on, like a spider spinning a web. |
| Perhatikanlah bunga bakung di padang, Tumbuh tanpa bekerja dan tanpa memintal. | Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin. |
| Kau carikan jerami segar untukku di saat aku sedang memintal. | You will fetch me fresh straw when I'm spinning at the wheel. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalan | rodar | Danish | spinde |
| Dutch | spinnen | English | spin |
| Esperanto | ŝpini | Estonian | ketrama |
| Faroese | spinna | Finnish | kehrätä,kieppua, kiertyä, kierähtää, spinnata |
| French | gyrer | German | spinnen, verspinnen |
| Hungarian | fon, perdít, perdül, pereg, pörget, pörög | Icelandic | spinna |
| Italian | filare, trottolare | Japanese | 紡ぐ, 紡績 |
| Lithuanian | verpti | Macedonian | се врти, спреде |
| Norwegian | virvle | Persian | تنیدن |
| Polish | buksować, doprząść, naprząść, odwirowywać, prząść, rozkręcić, snuć, sprząść, uprząść, usnuć, wyprząść | Portuguese | fiar |
| Quechua | puchkay | Romanian | învârti, toarce |
| Russian | кружиться, прясть, спрясть, сучить | Spanish | hilar, rotar |
| Swedish | knoppa, spinna | Thai | วิง, หมุน |
| Turkish | eğirmek, falso vermek, falso yapmak |