| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Aku tak akan mau dipaksa untuk menyanyikan lagu lagi. | I will never be forced to sing those songs again. |
| dengan bintik putih disekitar matanya... burung Sisin sedang menyanyikan lagu pengharapan.. | Father, last night I dreamt of a deer with white spots around its eyes... Sisin babblers are singing an auspicious song |
| Anak-anak setempat menyanyikan lagu menakutkan tentang mereka. | The local human children sing a kind of eerie little rhyme about him. Here, listen to this. |
| Oke, semua orang berkata, "Terima kasih, Mr Kossef untuk menyanyikan lagu yang indah. " | Okay, everybody say, "Thank you, Mr. Kossef, for singing that beautiful song." |
| Mereka berangkat dengan kesungguhan iman dan menyanyikan lagu religius. | They were going with complete faith.. ..and singing religious discourses. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | sing | Albanian | këndoj |
| Arabic | غنى | Basque | abestu |
| Catalan | cantar | Danish | synge |
| Dutch | bezingen,bezinken, toezingen, zingen | English | sing |
| Esperanto | kanti | Estonian | kumisema, laulma |
| Faroese | syngja | Finnish | laulaa, laulella, lauleskella |
| German | lobsingen, singen | Greek | κελαηδώ, τραγουδώ, ψάλλω, ψέλνω |
| Hawaiian | mele | Hebrew | שר |
| Hungarian | dalol, énekel | Icelandic | syngja |
| Italian | cantare, duettare, salmodiare, zirlare | Japanese | 歌う, 歌唱 |
| Latvian | dziedāt | Lithuanian | dainuoti, padainuoti |
| Macedonian | испее, отпее, пее | Malay | nyanyi |
| Maltese | kanta | Maori | waiata |
| Norwegian | synge, syngja | Persian | آواز خواندن |
| Polish | dośpiewać, odśpiewać, opiewać, pośpiewać, śpiewać, wyśpiewać, wyśpiewywać, zakolędować, zaśpiewać | Portuguese | cantar, entoar |
| Quechua | takiy | Romanian | cânta |
| Russian | воспевать, воспеть, петь | Spanish | cantar, grillar |
| Swedish | sjunga | Thai | ขับร้อง, ซอ, ร้อง, ร้องเพลง |
| Turkish | şarkı söylemek | Vietnamese | ca, hát, hắt, hất |