| Example in Malay | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Ku dengar kau dapat promosi. | I heard you were getting promoted. |
| Maaf, saya harus telah salah dengar. | I'm sorry, I must have heard wrong. |
| Aku sudah dengar. | I've heard about it. |
| Kalian dengar tak? | Did you hear that? |
| -Kau dengar tu? | Do you hear that... |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | hoor | Arabic | استمع,سمع |
| Azeri | eşitmək | Catalan | oir |
| Danish | høre | Dutch | horen |
| English | hear | Esperanto | aŭdi |
| Estonian | kuulma | Faroese | hoyra |
| Finnish | kuulla | German | anhören, hören, vernehmen |
| Greek | ακούω | Hawaiian | lohe |
| Hebrew | שמע | Hungarian | hall |
| Indonesian | dengar, mendengar | Italian | risentire, udire |
| Japanese | 聞き付ける, 聞く, 聞こえる | Latvian | dzirdēt |
| Lithuanian | girdėti, išgirsti | Macedonian | слушне, чуе |
| Maltese | sama' | Maori | oko, rongo |
| Norwegian | høre, høyra | Polish | dosłyszeć, przesłuchać, słyszeć, usłyszeć, wysłuchać |
| Portuguese | ouvir | Quechua | uyariy, uyay |
| Romanian | auzi | Russian | прослушивать, слышать, услышать |
| Spanish | oír | Thai | ได้ยิน, ทรงฟัง |
| Turkish | duyabilmek, işitmek | Vietnamese | nghe, nghé |