| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Aku mendengarkan suara karirku naik jadi asap. | I'm listening to the sound of my career going up in smoke. |
| aku bicara, orang-orang mendengarkan. -Cantik | I talk, people listen. |
| Hanya aku tak mendengarkan. | I just wasn't listening. |
| - Apakah kau tidak mendengarkan aku? | - Aren't you listening to me? |
| Mereka tidak mendengarkan aku. | They didn't listen to me. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | luister | Albanian | degjoj |
| Arabic | أذن,أنصت, نصت | Azeri | dinləmək |
| Catalan | escoltar | Danish | lytte |
| Dutch | luisteren | English | listen |
| Esperanto | aŭskultadi, aŭskulti | Estonian | kuulatama |
| Faroese | lurta | Finnish | kuunnella |
| German | herhören, horchen, zuhören | Greek | εισακούω |
| Hawaiian | hoʻolohe | Hebrew | הקשיב |
| Hungarian | odafigyel | Italian | ascoltare |
| Latvian | klausīties | Lithuanian | išklausyti, klausyti, klausytis, paklausyti, pasiklausyti |
| Macedonian | ислуша, слуша | Maori | whakarongo |
| Norwegian | lytte | Persian | گوش دادن, گوش کردن |
| Polish | nasłuchiwać, odsłuchać, odsłuchiwać, posłuchać, przysłuchać, przysłuchiwać, słuchać, wsłuchać, wsłuchiwać, wysłuchiwać | Portuguese | escuitar, escutar |
| Romanian | asculta | Russian | внимать, внять, послушать, слушать |
| Swedish | lyssna | Thai | ฟัง, รับฟัง |
| Turkish | dinlemek | Vietnamese | lắng nghe, nghe lời |
