| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Het moet geweldig zijn om alles zo te simplificeren als jij. | It must be so great to have this ability to simplify things the way you do. |
| Ik moet gewoon mijn leven simplificeren. | I just need to simplify my life. |
| De maatschappij simplificeert het drugsgebruik. De wereld wordt ingedeeld in verslaafden en niet-verslaafden. | Respectable society tends to oversimplify drugs dividing the world into addicts and non-addicts. |
| Volgens mij simplificeert u het probleem nogal. | I think you're oversimplifying the argument considerably. |
| Het wordt allemaal gesimplificeerd tot rokende bisschoppen. | It'll all become oversimplified and trivialized and cigarette-smoking-pontiff-icized. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | thjeshtëzoj | Catalan | simplificar |
| English | simplify | Esperanto | simpligi |
| Estonian | lihtsustama,lihtsustuma | Finnish | yksinkertaistaa, yksinkertaistua |
| French | simplifier | German | simplifizieren, vereinfachen |
| Greek | απλοποιώ, ευκολύνω | Hebrew | פישט |
| Hungarian | egyszerűsít | Indonesian | menyederhanakan |
| Italian | elementarizzare, semplificare | Japanese | 簡約 |
| Macedonian | поедностави, поедноставува, упрости, упростува | Norwegian | forenkle |
| Polish | symplifikować, upraszczać, uprościć | Portuguese | descomplicar, simplificar |
| Romanian | simplifica | Russian | упростить, упрощать |
| Spanish | simplificar | Swedish | förenkla, hyfsa, simplifiera, simulera |
| Turkish | basitleştirmek, sadeleştirmek |