| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| I'm very sorry for your loss お悔やみ 申し上げます | I'm very sorry for your loss. |
| 合衆国を代表し 申し上げます | On behalf of the United States of America... ...thesigningofthis treatywillusherin an era of unprecedented prosperity... |
| 率直に 申し上げます | Since you and he were so close, |
| 申し上げます 彼は大佐の馬を盗みました | Colonel Powell! |
| ノヴァ軍に代って 特別にお礼を 申し上げます ザンダーを 助けて頂きました | On behalf of the Nova Corps, we'd like to express our profound gratitude for your help in saving Xandar. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | sê | Albanian | them |
| Arabic | قال,قل | Azeri | demək |
| Basque | erran, esan | Catalan | dir |
| Danish | sige, udtale | Dutch | zeggen |
| English | say | Estonian | ütlema |
| Faroese | siga | Finnish | lausua, sanoa, virkkoa |
| French | dédire | German | dazusagen, sagen |
| Greek | λέω | Hawaiian | ʻī |
| Hebrew | אמר | Hungarian | mond |
| Icelandic | kveða | Indonesian | bilang, mengatakan, mengucapkan |
| Italian | dire | Latvian | pateikt, sacīt, teikt |
| Lithuanian | išsakyti, sakyti | Macedonian | вели, искаже, рече |
| Malay | bilang | Maltese | qal |
| Norwegian | seia, seie, si | Persian | گفتن |
| Polish | dopowiadać, mawiać, rzec, rżeć, wyjęzyczać | Quechua | ñiy |
| Romanian | cuvânta, spune, zice | Russian | вымолвить, гласить, говаривать, молвить, пробасить, проговаривать, проговорить, промолвить, сказать |
| Spanish | decir | Swedish | säg, säga, säja, säkerhetskopiera, säkerställa |
| Thai | กล่าว, ว่า | Turkish | demek, söylemek |
