| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Seperti, kupu-kupu mengapung sayapnya dan Tokyo meledak, atau ada tsunami di, seperti, di suatu tempat. | Like, a butterfly floats its wings and Tokyo explodes, or there's a tsunami in, like, somewhere. |
| Kupu-kupu putih mengapung di angin lembut yang hangat. | The white butterflies float on the soft warm wind. |
| "'Ketika aku melihat mereka mengapung di sekitar, aku ingin berdansa.'" | "'When I watch them float around, I want to dance.'" |
| Aku melihatmu mengapung di kolam renang. | I saw you floating in the pool. |
| Berpura-pura bahwa kau bisa mengapung. | Pretend that you can float. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | dryf,sweef | Arabic | طفا |
| Dutch | dobberen, drijven, glijden, zweven | English | float |
| Esperanto | flosi, flosigi | Estonian | floteerima, heljuma, hõljuma, ujutama |
| Faroese | flóta, floyta | Finnish | kellua, kelluttaa, leijailla, lilliä, lillua |
| French | flotter | German | flöhen, flottieren, gleiten, schweben |
| Hungarian | lebeg | Icelandic | fleyta, fljóta |
| Italian | flottare, fluitare, galleggiare | Japanese | 漂う, 浮かぶ, 浮かべる, 浮く, 浮遊 |
| Lithuanian | plūduriuoti | Macedonian | плута |
| Norwegian | flyte, sveve | Polish | rozpisywać, unosić |
| Portuguese | boiar, desencalhar, flutuar | Quechua | tuytuy |
| Romanian | pluti | Spanish | boyar, flotar |
| Swedish | simma | Thai | ลอย |
| Turkish | şamandıralamak | Vietnamese | bềnh bồng, bồng bềnh, lênh đênh, nổi, phao |