| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - 浮かばない - 言うんだ！ - 早言え！何やってる - 5、2、8、4、9、1. | I got somebody standing in front of his office right now ready to tap in the combination. |
| - 浮かばない - 言うんだ！ | I need the first six numbers that come to your head right now. |
| ドナという女性が 浮かんだ | We got a lead on a woman named Donna. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | dryf,sweef | Arabic | طفا |
| Dutch | dobberen, drijven, glijden, zweven | English | float |
| Esperanto | flosi, flosigi | Estonian | floteerima, heljuma, hõljuma, ujutama |
| Faroese | flóta, floyta | Finnish | kellua, kelluttaa, leijailla, lilliä, lillua |
| French | flotter | German | flöhen, flottieren, gleiten, schweben |
| Hungarian | lebeg | Icelandic | fleyta, fljóta |
| Indonesian | hanyut, melayang, mengambang, mengapung, terkatung-katung | Italian | flottare, fluitare, galleggiare |
| Lithuanian | plūduriuoti | Macedonian | плута |
| Norwegian | flyte, sveve | Polish | rozpisywać, unosić |
| Portuguese | boiar, desencalhar, flutuar | Quechua | tuytuy |
| Romanian | pluti | Spanish | boyar, flotar |
| Swedish | simma | Thai | ลอย |
| Turkish | şamandıralamak | Vietnamese | bềnh bồng, bồng bềnh, lênh đênh, nổi, phao |