| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| 後で 罰する | I'll deal with you two later. |
| 罰した | And then, he'd punish me. |
| 神の手が降りて来て 罰した？ | The hand of God reached down from the skies and punished these people for their sins? |
| 罰して！ | Punish me! |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | عاقب,عذب | Catalan | penar, punir |
| Dutch | afstraffen, bestraffen, bestralen, straffen | English | punish |
| Faroese | sekta | Finnish | rangaista |
| French | punir, pupiller, pupiniser | German | abstrafen, bestrafen, strafen |
| Greek | τιμωρώ | Hungarian | büntet, megbüntet |
| Icelandic | refsa | Indonesian | menghukum |
| Italian | castigare, punire, punirsi | Lithuanian | bausti, nubausti |
| Macedonian | казни, казнува, накаже | Malay | menghukum |
| Norwegian | straffe | Persian | مجازات کردن |
| Polish | karać, pokarać, ukarać | Portuguese | castigar, punir |
| Quechua | maqakuy | Romanian | pedepsi |
| Russian | карать, наказать, наказывать, покарать | Spanish | castigar, penar, punir |
| Swedish | bestraffa, straffa | Thai | ลงโทษ |
| Turkish | cezalandırmak | Vietnamese | trách phạt, trừng trị |