| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Kenapa masih mengupas bawang? ! | How can you still be peeling onions? |
| Dengan tangan Anda, Anda mengupas pisang. | With your hands, you peel the banana. |
| Waktu aku seharusnya memintanya, lalu.. bolehkah aku minta ijin ketika dia tengah mengupas bawang? Dia orang sibuk. | When am I supposed to ask him then... if I can't ask him when he's peeling an onion? |
| Aku akan mengungkapkan rencana ku ketika mereka tiba, untuk membiarkan mereka mengupas kulit satu lapisanmu pada suatu waktu. | I'll reveal my plan when they arrive, to have them peel away your skin one layer at a time. |
| Di dapur, Ibu sedang mengupas bawang, titik. | "In the kitchen, Mommy is peeling an onion." Period. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | بشر,قشر | Azeri | soymaq |
| Catalan | pelar | Danish | pille, skalle |
| Dutch | afpellen, afschillen, bladderen, jassen, pellen, penaliseren, schillen, vervellen | English | peel |
| Esperanto | senŝeligi | Faroese | flysa |
| Finnish | kuoria | French | peler |
| German | pellen, schälen | Greek | ξεφλουδίζω, ξεφορμάρω, ξεφουρνίζω, ξεφράζω, ξεφτίζω, ξεφτιλίζω |
| Hawaiian | māihi | Hungarian | hámlik, hámoz |
| Icelandic | skræla | Italian | dipelare, mondare, sbucciare |
| Japanese | 剥く | Lithuanian | lupti |
| Macedonian | излупи, лупи | Norwegian | skrella, skrelle |
| Polish | korować, obierać, obrać, odwarstwiać, złuszczyć | Portuguese | descascar |
| Russian | лупить, облупить, облупиться, облупливать, облупливаться | Spanish | descascarar, mondar, pelar |
| Swedish | skala | Thai | ปอก, ลอก, เลาะ |
| Turkish | soymak |