| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Ik ga eerst die stoelen dichtvouwen voordat ik ga. | I'll just go fold those chairs before I go. |
| Naar dat kantoortje in de Roelandstraat, brieven openen, lezen, weer dichtvouwen en dan doorsturen. | I go to that little office in Roeland Street and I open letters and I read them. Then I fold them and put them back and send them off. |
| De tijdmachine ziet er uit als een ei wanneer ze is dichtgevouwen. | The time machine kinda looks like an egg when it's all folded up. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ثنى,لطي | Catalan | plegar |
| Danish | folde | English | fold |
| Esperanto | faldi | Estonian | kurduma, voltima |
| Finnish | kurtata, laskostua, poimuttaa, taittaa, taittua | German | falten, falzen |
| Greek | διπλώνω, διφωσφορυλιώνω, δολώνω | Hebrew | קיפל |
| Hungarian | hajt | Indonesian | lipat |
| Italian | piegare, ripiegare | Japanese | 畳む |
| Lithuanian | lankstyti, sulankstyti, sulenkti | Macedonian | дипли, здипли |
| Malay | lipat, melipat | Polish | falcować, sfalcować, składać, spasować, zagiąć, zaginać, zwijać |
| Romanian | împături, îndupleca | Russian | перегибать, перегнуть |
| Spanish | alechugar, plegar, plegarse | Swedish | folda, lägga, vika, vikariera |
| Thai | พับ | Turkish | katlamak, kavuşturmak |
| Vietnamese | gấp |