| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Jangan panik, saya tidak menelan air liurmu | Don't panic, I didn't swallow your saliva |
| Kurasa, akhirnya ombak menelan kapal dan teriakan pengemudi perahu | "I think, at last the wave swallows the boat and the boatman's cry |
| Sebentar lagi kau tak bisa menelan. Lalu bisa mati. | Soon you won't be able to swallow, and then you'll be totally buggered. |
| Kalian dapat dengan mudah menelan 70 ketimbang 50. | You two can easily swallow 70 instead of 50. |
| Thi menyuntikkan mereka atau menelan mereka. biasanya... | You inject it or you swallow it, usually, and... from what are they made? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ابتلع,ازدرد, بلع, جرع | Azeri | udmaq |
| Catalan | engolir | Dutch | doorslikken, inslikken, slikken, verkroppen, wegslikken |
| English | swallow | Esperanto | engluti, forgluti, gluti |
| Faroese | svølgja | Finnish | nielaista, nieleskellä, niellä |
| French | avaler, ingurgiter | German | schlucken, verschlucken |
| Greek | καταπίνω, ρουφώ | Hebrew | בלע |
| Hungarian | nyel | Icelandic | kyngja, svelgja |
| Italian | deglutire, inghiottire, ingoiare | Japanese | 飲み込む, 嚥下 |
| Lithuanian | nuryti, praryti | Macedonian | голта, голтне, проголта |
| Maltese | bela' | Norwegian | svelge |
| Polish | nałykać, pochłonąć, połknąć, połykać, przełknąć, przełykać | Portuguese | deglutir, engolir |
| Quechua | millp'uy | Romanian | înghiți |
| Russian | глотать, глотнуть, проглатывать, проглотить, сглатывать, сглотнуть | Spanish | deglutir, tragarse |
| Swedish | svälja, svälla | Thai | กลืน |
| Turkish | sineye çekmek, yutkunmak, yutmak, yutturulmak | Vietnamese | nuốt |