| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Biarku terka... sekitar enam inci dari rumput, bukan ? | Lemme guess... about six inches above the grass, right? |
| Coba terka ? | And guess what? |
| aku akan terka kau jauh dari rumahmu | I'm going to guess you're a little bit far from home. |
| Biar aku terka. | Let me guess. |
| Biar ku terka, Kau mencontohnya dari filem-film bukan? | Let me guess, you saw that in a movie'? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | خمن | Catalan | endevinar |
| Danish | ane | Dutch | gissen,raden |
| English | guess | Esperanto | konjekti |
| Estonian | mõistatama | Finnish | arvailla, arvata, veikata |
| French | deviner, supposer | German | erraten, vermuten |
| Greek | υποθέτω | Hebrew | ניחש |
| Hungarian | kitalál, tippel | Icelandic | giska |
| Italian | indovinare, presumere | Japanese | 憶測, 察する, 推察 |
| Latvian | minēt | Lithuanian | atspėti, nuspėti, spėlioti |
| Polish | domyślić, odfrunąć, odgadnąć, odgadywać, wymiarkować, zgadnąć | Portuguese | adivinhar |
| Romanian | crede, ghici | Russian | догадаться, догадываться, отгадать, отгадывать, угадать, угадывать |
| Spanish | adivinar, conjeturar | Swedish | gissa, gissla |
| Thai | เดา | Vietnamese | dự đoán, đoan, đoán, đoán mò, phỏng đoán |