| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| 近寄れ 君の子だ | - Take a closer, it's your kid. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | afrohem | Arabic | نهج,هدف |
| Azeri | yaxınlaşmaq | Dutch | benaderen, nabijkomen, naderen |
| English | approach | Esperanto | alproksimiĝi |
| Faroese | náa | Finnish | lähestyä |
| French | aborder, approcher, s’aborgner | German | herannahen, nahekommen, nähern, sich nähern |
| Greek | πλησιάζω, προσεγγίζω | Hebrew | התקרב, ניגש, קרב |
| Hungarian | közelít, megközelít | Indonesian | dekati, mendekati, menjelang |
| Italian | accostare, appressare, appressarsi, approcciare, appropinquarsi, approssimare, raccostare | Latvian | pienākt |
| Lithuanian | artėti, artintis, priartėti, prieiti, prisiartinti, užkalbinti | Macedonian | пријде, пристапи, се приближува |
| Norwegian | nærme, tilnærme | Polish | podchodzić, zbliżyć |
| Portuguese | acercar, aproximar | Quechua | asuy, asuykuy, chimpay |
| Romanian | apropia | Russian | надвигаться, надвинуться, подойти, подступать, подступить, сближаться, сблизиться |
| Spanish | aproximarse, frisar | Swedish | approchera, nalkas, närma, närvara |
| Turkish | yaklaşılmak, yaklaşmak, yanaşmak | Vietnamese | áp, tiếp cận |