| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Tentu aku bisa menjahit. | Of course I know how to sew. |
| Aku tidak tahu kau bisa menjahit atau tidak, tapi itu adalah kerjaan | I don't know if you can sew, but it's a job. |
| Dia cantik sekali dia seharusnya menari, bukan menjahit | She's real beauty. She should be dancing, not sewing. |
| Aku telah membiusmu untuk menjahit lukamu. | Your wound was made numb... so it could be sewn together without pain. |
| Kau tidak boleh menjahit kancing dimataku! | You're not sewing buttons in my eyes! |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | رتق | Catalan | cosir |
| Danish | sy | Dutch | aaneennaaien,innaaien, innemen, naaien, opnaaien, vastnaaien |
| English | sew | Esperanto | enkudri, kudri, kunkudri, rekudri |
| Faroese | seyma | Finnish | ommella |
| French | coudre | Greek | ράβω, σκοτίζω |
| Hawaiian | humuhumu | Hebrew | תפר |
| Hungarian | varr | Icelandic | sauma |
| Italian | agucchiare, cucire | Japanese | 縫う |
| Latvian | šūt | Lithuanian | pasiūti, siūti, siuvinėti, susiūti |
| Macedonian | сошие, шие | Maori | tuitui |
| Norwegian | sy | Polish | naszyć, szyć, uszyć, wszywać, zeszyć |
| Portuguese | coser, costurar | Quechua | siray |
| Romanian | coase | Russian | сшить, шить |
| Spanish | coser | Swedish | sy |
| Thai | เย็บ | Vietnamese | đột, khâu, may |