| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| 何それ、うける | Oh, weird! |
| こっちまで聞こえてたぜ ５０ヤードも離れてるのに 何それ、うける | Out there having a conversation on a cellphone, but it's so quiet that I can hear her even though she's about 50 yards away. |
| なにが‘‘新時代のたあの暗殺‘‘ でし ょ うか ？ | To kill the young man responsible for the future. |
| なにが''新時代のたあの暗殺'' でし ょ うか ？ | What will this assassination bring for the new era? |
| 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 |