| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Aku akan menunggu melalui di dalam mobil, Mom. | I'm going to go wait in the car, Mom. |
| Tidak, aku tidak bisa menunggu sampai besok. | No, I can't wait until tomorrow. |
| "Sejak dulu, ya, sejak dulu Aku menunggu." | "Since then, yeah, since then I've been waiting.." |
| Lalu, kenapa harus menunggu sampai saat itu? | Why wait until then? |
| Mereka sudah lama menunggu. | They've waited a long time. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | wag | Arabic | انتظر |
| Azeri | gözləmək | Catalan | esperar,tardar |
| Danish | vente | Dutch | wachten |
| English | wait | Faroese | bíða |
| Finnish | vartoa, venata, ventata, vuottaa | German | kellnern, warten |
| Greek | περιμένω | Hebrew | חיכה |
| Hungarian | vár, várakozik | Icelandic | bíða |
| Japanese | 待つ | Latvian | gaidīt, pagaidīt |
| Lithuanian | laukti, palaukti, palūkėti, pralaukti | Macedonian | чека |
| Malay | menunggu, tunggu | Maori | tatari |
| Norwegian | bie, venta | Persian | صبر کردن |
| Polish | czekać, doczekać, odczekać, poczekać, przeczekać, zaczekać | Portuguese | esperar |
| Quechua | suyay | Romanian | adăsta |
| Russian | ждать, обождать, поджидать, подождать | Spanish | aguardar |
| Swedish | vänta | Thai | คอย, รอ, รา |
| Turkish | beklemek, bekletmek | Vietnamese | chờ |
