| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| 45 minuten om de overige reactoren te laten afsmelten. | 45 minutes to melt down the remaining reactors. |
| CTU vond de override voordat de andere reactoren konden afsmelten. | CTU got to the override before the other nuclear plants melted down. |
| En we hebben nog maar 20 minuten voordat die reactoren gaan afsmelten. | Also, we're running out of time. We've got about 20 minutes before these plants start to melt down. |
| Hoeveel tijd heb je nog nodig om die overgebleven reactoren te laten afsmelten? | How much more time do you need to melt down the remaining nuclear power plants? |
| Je realiseert je toch wel dat als alle reactoren afsmelten, er honderd duizenden mensen zullen sterven. | You do realize if all the reactors melt down, hundreds of thousands of people will die. |
| De supergeleider smelt af. | Dee Jay! [Computer] Superconductor field meltdown. |
| "afsmelt in de zee." | "...melt itself into the sea." |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ذاب,ذب | Catalan | fondre |
| English | melt | Esperanto | degeli, degeligi, fandi, fandigi, fandiĝi |
| Faroese | tiðna | Finnish | sulaa, sulattaa |
| French | dégeler, dégenrer, fondre | German | schmelzen, tauen, zerfließen, zergehen, zerlassen |
| Greek | λιώνω, τήκω | Hebrew | נמס |
| Hungarian | olvad, olvaszt | Icelandic | bræða |
| Indonesian | leleh, melebur, meleleh, mencair, mengharukan | Italian | sciogliere, sgelare, solvere, squagliare, squagliarsi, struggere |
| Japanese | 解ける, 融解, 溶かす, 溶融 | Latvian | kausēt, sakust |
| Lithuanian | išlydyti, ištirpti, lydyti, lydytis, tirpdyti, tirpti | Macedonian | се стопи, се топи, стопи, топи |
| Norwegian | smelte | Persian | گداختن |
| Polish | natapiać, przetapiać, rozpływać, rozpuszczać, roztapiać, roztopić, stopić, stopnieć, topić, topnieć, wytopić | Quechua | unuyay |
| Romanian | topi | Russian | плавить, расплавить, расплавлять, растаять, таять |
| Spanish | derretir, derretirse, deshelar | Swedish | smälta |
| Thai | ละลาย, หลอม | Turkish | ergimek, ergitmek, erimek, eritmek |
| Vietnamese | nóng chảy, nồng cháy, tan, tan rã |