| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Ya, aku sesuatu yang dapat menggali lubang dengan. | - Yes, something l can dig a hole with. |
| Dr Konrad Steffens memimpin tim yang harus menggali setiap musim semi. | Dr. Konrad Steffens leads the team that has to dig out every spring. |
| Ludah akan berjalan ke bawah, sehingga Anda hanya menggali ke arah berlawanan. | The spit will run downwards, so you just dig the opposite way. |
| Kau harus kembali dan menggali-gali arsip kami. | You know, you really should come back and dig through our archives. |
| Mereka menggali jenasahnya, ya? | They're digging up the body, huh? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | grawe,grou | Arabic | حفر, فقر |
| Danish | grave | Dutch | delven, graven, opdiepen, spitten |
| English | dig | Esperanto | elfosi |
| Estonian | kaevama, tuustima | Faroese | grava |
| Finnish | digata, kaivaa, kaivautua, kaivella | French | creuser |
| German | ausheben, buddeln, graben, wühlen | Greek | ανασκάπτω, ξεθάβω, σκάβω |
| Hebrew | חפר | Hungarian | ás, túr |
| Icelandic | grafa | Italian | scavare, vangare |
| Japanese | 掘る | Latvian | rakt |
| Lithuanian | kasti, kastis | Macedonian | ископа, копа |
| Maori | keri, taupoki | Norwegian | grava, grave |
| Polish | dokopać, głębić, kopać, nakopać, odkopywać, przekopywać, rozkopywać, ryć, wryć, wygrzebywać, wykopać, wykopywać | Portuguese | cavar, escavar |
| Quechua | allay, haratay | Romanian | săpa |
| Russian | копать, копаться, порыться, рыть, рыться | Spanish | escarbar, escavar |
| Swedish | gräfva | Thai | ขุด, ขุดคุ้ย |
| Turkish | bellemek, kazdırmak, kazmak | Vietnamese | xoi, xới |