| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Apakah Anda baru saja, seperti, mengucapkan kata-kata acak, Tobe? | Are you just, like, saying random words, Tobe? |
| Karena sebenarnnya, aku belum bisa mengucapkan selamat tinggal sekarang.. | Because the thing is, I just can't say goodbye yet. |
| Siapa yg mengajarimu mengucapkan kata norak itu? | Who taught you to say something so corny? |
| Dalam beberapa bulan terakhir, dia mengucapkan sesuatu berulang-ulang, seperti mantra: | In her last months, she kept saying one thing over and over, like a mantra: |
| Dia suamiku, aku mencintainya, tapi aku tak bisa mengucapkan salam perpisahan. | He was my husband, I loved him, but I... I couldn't say goodbye. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | sê | Albanian | them |
| Arabic | قال,قل | Azeri | demək |
| Basque | erran, esan | Catalan | dir |
| Danish | sige, udtale | Dutch | zeggen |
| English | say | Estonian | ütlema |
| Faroese | siga | Finnish | lausua, sanoa, virkkoa |
| French | dédire | German | dazusagen, sagen |
| Greek | λέω | Hawaiian | ʻī |
| Hebrew | אמר | Hungarian | mond |
| Icelandic | kveða | Italian | dire |
| Japanese | おっしゃる, 仰っしゃる, 言う, 言える, 申し上げる, 申す | Latvian | pateikt, sacīt, teikt |
| Lithuanian | išsakyti, sakyti | Macedonian | вели, искаже, рече |
| Malay | bilang | Maltese | qal |
| Norwegian | seia, seie, si | Persian | گفتن |
| Polish | dopowiadać, mawiać, rzec, rżeć, wyjęzyczać | Quechua | ñiy |
| Romanian | cuvânta, spune, zice | Russian | вымолвить, гласить, говаривать, молвить, пробасить, проговаривать, проговорить, промолвить, сказать |
| Spanish | decir | Swedish | säg, säga, säja, säkerhetskopiera, säkerställa |
| Thai | กล่าว, ว่า | Turkish | demek, söylemek |