| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Goede vraag. We pluizen zijn leven na hopend een antwoord te vinden. | We've been picking apart his life trying to find an answer to that. |
| Wat een einde om door dokter Graves en z'n studenten uit elkaar geplozen te worden. | What was the value of her life? To end up being picked apart by the likes of Dr. Graves and his bumbling students? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | قطف,نكأ | Catalan | collir, optar, seleccionar, triar |
| English | pick | Faroese | pilka |
| Finnish | napsia, plokata, poimia | French | recoller |
| German | abpflücken, stochern | Hawaiian | hiku |
| Hebrew | קטף | Hungarian | piszkál, szakaszt |
| Icelandic | kroppa, tína | Indonesian | memetik, memilik, petik |
| Italian | cogliere, piluccare | Japanese | 採取, 摘み取る |
| Latvian | lasīt | Lithuanian | išrinkti, rankyti |
| Norwegian | plukke | Persian | چیدن |
| Polish | dłubać, wydłubać, wyłowić | Romanian | scobi |
| Russian | сорвать, срывать | Spanish | cogerse, mondarse |
| Swedish | hacka, haffa, hafva, hafwa, utvälja | Thai | แคะ |
| Turkish | yolmak | Vietnamese | kiếm chuyện, nhóng, xỉa |