| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Je laat me hier toch niet alleen, kluivend op wat koude kip? | You not just going to leave me here alone gnawing on a cold chicken bone, are you? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | نخر | Catalan | rosegar |
| English | gnaw | Finnish | jyrsiä,järsiä, jäytää, kaluta, kalvaa, nakertaa |
| French | ronger, se ronger, se rosifier, se roter, se rôtir, se rouler, se routiner, se rouvrir, se royaumer, se rudéraliser, se ruer, se ruiner, se rupturer | German | nagen, zehren |
| Hungarian | rágcsál | Icelandic | naga |
| Indonesian | menggerogoti | Italian | mordicchiare, rodere, rosicare, rosicchiare |
| Lithuanian | graužti, pagraužti | Norwegian | gnage |
| Polish | nadgryzać, nadgryźć, obgryzać, zeźreć, zeżreć | Portuguese | rilhar, roer |
| Romanian | roade | Russian | глодать, грызть |
| Spanish | roer | Swedish | gnaga |
| Turkish | eziyet vermek, kemirmek | Vietnamese | găm, gặm, gầm |
