| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Daar gaat je schmink van bladderen. Oeps. | That boy can peel paint. |
| Ik wil niet dat je schmink gaat bladderen. | I wouldn't want to peel your paint. |
| Jaren geleden, na de overstromingen werd de schildering vochtig en ze begon af te bladderen. Er bleek een oudere schildering onder te zitten. | You see, several years ago... long after the floods... moisture seeped into a portion of the altarpiece... and it began to peel... revealing an older painting underneath. |
| De lak bladdert van het dak. | The paint is peeling on the ceiling. |
| Elke keer dat ze dat zegt, bladdert de verf af... en probeert zo 'n wild monster ons te doden. | Every time she says that, the paint peels and some wild creature tries to kill us. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | بشر,قشر | Azeri | soymaq |
| Catalan | pelar | Danish | pille, skalle |
| English | peel | Esperanto | senŝeligi |
| Faroese | flysa | Finnish | kuoria |
| French | peler | German | pellen, schälen |
| Greek | ξεφλουδίζω, ξεφορμάρω, ξεφουρνίζω, ξεφράζω, ξεφτίζω, ξεφτιλίζω | Hawaiian | māihi |
| Hungarian | hámlik, hámoz | Icelandic | skræla |
| Indonesian | mengelupas, mengupas | Italian | dipelare, mondare, sbucciare |
| Japanese | 剥く | Lithuanian | lupti |
| Macedonian | излупи, лупи | Norwegian | skrella, skrelle |
| Polish | korować, obierać, obrać, odwarstwiać, złuszczyć | Portuguese | descascar |
| Russian | лупить, облупить, облупиться, облупливать, облупливаться | Spanish | descascarar, mondar, pelar |
| Swedish | skala | Thai | ปอก, ลอก, เลาะ |
| Turkish | soymak |