| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| お前の目玉を 油で揚げる。 お前の脚を がりがり かじる。 お前の胃袋を がつがつ食う。 | They'll fry your eyes, gnaw on your knees, gobble your gizzards. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | مضغ | Azeri | çeynəmək |
| Catalan | mastegar,masticar | Danish | tygge |
| Dutch | fijnkauwen, kauwen, stukbijten, voorkauwen | English | chew |
| Esperanto | maĉi | Estonian | mäluma, närima, nätsutama |
| Finnish | pureksia | French | macher, mâcher, mâchonner, mordiller |
| German | kauen, zerbeißen, zerkauen | Greek | μασουλίζω, μαστίζω, μαστουριάζω, μασώ, ματαγυρίζω, ματίζω, ματσακονίζω, μεγαλύνω |
| Hungarian | rág | Indonesian | mengunyah |
| Italian | masticare | Lithuanian | kramtyti |
| Macedonian | изџвака, џвака | Norwegian | tygge, tyggja |
| Polish | pogryźć, przeżuć, rozgryzać, zgryźć, zzuć, zżuć, żuć | Portuguese | mastigar |
| Romanian | mesteca | Russian | жевать, пожевать |
| Spanish | masticar | Swedish | tugga, tukta |
| Thai | ขบฉัน, เคี้ยว | Turkish | çiğnemek, çiğnenmek, çiğnetmek, düşünüp taşınmak |
| Vietnamese | nhai, nhại |