| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Je kan als atomen door de lucht glijden. | You can float as atoms in the air. Now get out. |
| Ze glijden langs de draad alsof ze mysterieus zweven, helemaal... | They slide down the thread as if mysteriously floating All the way... |
| Zonnestralen glijden binnen door het raam. | Solar spores float through the room. |
| Ze glijdt de school door alsof ze een optocht loopt. | How can you miss her? She's been gliding around school all day like a Thanksgiving float. |
| Het ijs dat van het land gleed, dreef de zee op in een immense plaat. Daarin zaten ook stenen die het aan land vergaard had. | As the ice moved off the land, it floated out over the sea in a great shelf, carrying with it stones that it had gathered on the continents. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | dryf,sweef | Arabic | طفا |
| English | float | Esperanto | flosi, flosigi |
| Estonian | floteerima, heljuma, hõljuma, ujutama | Faroese | flóta, floyta |
| Finnish | kellua, kelluttaa, leijailla, lilliä, lillua | French | flotter |
| German | flöhen, flottieren, gleiten, schweben | Hungarian | lebeg |
| Icelandic | fleyta, fljóta | Indonesian | hanyut, melayang, mengambang, mengapung, terkatung-katung |
| Italian | flottare, fluitare, galleggiare | Japanese | 漂う, 浮かぶ, 浮かべる, 浮く, 浮遊 |
| Lithuanian | plūduriuoti | Macedonian | плута |
| Norwegian | flyte, sveve | Polish | rozpisywać, unosić |
| Portuguese | boiar, desencalhar, flutuar | Quechua | tuytuy |
| Romanian | pluti | Spanish | boyar, flotar |
| Swedish | simma | Thai | ลอย |
| Turkish | şamandıralamak | Vietnamese | bềnh bồng, bồng bềnh, lênh đênh, nổi, phao |