| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| "脅かす"以上だ | That's an understatement. |
| メッセージをプリントして おどかす | Print weird messages, freak them out. |
| おどかして ごめん | Sorry. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | هدد | Azeri | hədələmək |
| Catalan | amenaçar | Dutch | bedreigen,dreigen |
| English | threaten | Esperanto | minaci |
| Faroese | hótta | Finnish | uhata, uhkailla |
| French | menacer | German | androhen, bedrohen, drohen |
| Greek | απειλώ, απελαύνομαι | Hebrew | איים |
| Hungarian | fenyeget | Icelandic | hóta |
| Indonesian | mengancam | Italian | minacciare, minacciarsi |
| Lithuanian | grasinti, grėsti, grūmoti | Macedonian | запрети, прети, се закани, се заканува |
| Norwegian | true | Polish | godzić, grozić, pogrozić, zagrażać, zagrążać, zagrozić |
| Portuguese | ameaçar | Romanian | amenința |
| Russian | грозить, грозиться, погрозить, пригрозить, угрожать | Spanish | amagar, amenazar, conminar |
| Swedish | hota, hovera | Vietnamese | dọa nạt |
