| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| waktu habis. Letakkan pensil kalian dan taruh buku biru kalian di mejaku sebelum kalian pergi. | And time.. put your pencils down and place your blue books on my desk before you leave. |
| Pak, taruh jarimu disana sampai kusuruh berhenti. | Sir, place your finger in there until I tell you to stop. |
| Cuma di taruh di bawah meja, terlalu berbahaya. | Just in place under the table, too dangerous. |
| Pasti salah taruh. | It's been momentarily misplaced! |
| Tolong berbalik dan taruh kedua tanganmu di belakang. | Please turn around and place your hands behind your back. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | plaas | Danish | placere |
| Dutch | plaatsen | English | place |
| Esperanto | loki,meti | Estonian | asetama, asetuma, platseerima |
| Faroese | koyra | Finnish | asettautua |
| German | platzieren, stellen | Hungarian | állít, elhelyez, helyez |
| Icelandic | vista | Italian | collocare, disporre, piazzare, posizionare, posizionarsi |
| Japanese | 据える | Latvian | novietot |
| Lithuanian | patalpinti | Macedonian | положи, положува, смести |
| Malay | taruh | Norwegian | plassere |
| Polish | kłaść, odbywać, układać, umieszczać, umieść, ustawiać, zamieszczać, zamieść | Portuguese | colocar |
| Quechua | suk'ay | Russian | поместить, помещать, приходить, разместить, размещать, расположить, расставить, расставлять |
| Spanish | clasificarse, colocar | Swedish | placera |
| Thai | ประดิษฐาน | Turkish | gerçekleşebilmek, yerleştirmek |
| Vietnamese | chôn, đặt, để |