| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| これをここで 留める | Close this here. |
| 留めて | I enjoy those, milady. Ye-- Mary. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danish | holde | Dutch | vasthouden |
| English | hold | Esperanto | teni |
| Faroese | halda | Finnish | pidellä |
| French | détenir,enfermer, enferrer, renfermer | German | halten, vorhalten |
| Greek | βαστώ, κρατώ, πιάνω, χωρώ | Icelandic | gegna, rúma |
| Indonesian | beranggapan, berpegang, memegang, menahan, mengadakan, menggelar, menggendong, pegang | Italian | detenere, tenere, trattenere |
| Latvian | turēt | Lithuanian | laikyti, prilaikyti |
| Macedonian | држи, одржи | Malay | memegang, pegang |
| Maori | pupuri | Norwegian | halda, holde |
| Polish | chwytać, piastować, potrzymać, przytrzymać, przytrzymywać, trzymać, zmieścić | Portuguese | apossar, assenhorear, segurar |
| Romanian | ține | Russian | держать, подержать, придержать, придерживать, придерживаться |
| Spanish | afianzarse, sostener, sostenerse | Swedish | hålla, hålla i |
| Thai | กุม, ถือ, ยุด | Turkish | tutmak, tutunmak |
| Vietnamese | cầm, giũ, giú, giữ vững, nắm giữ, nín |