| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - En hij zat in de top van het football. | True as toast. And in college, he was a Heisman candidate till he blew his knee out. |
| Enkel omdat hij kaviaar at met onze top, maakt hem nog geen vriend van het Westen. Genoeg. | Just because he had caviar on toast points with our top brass doesn't make the guy a friend to the West. |
| We waren de top van de dramatische sociëteit. | We were the toast of the dramatic society. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | thek | Arabic | نخب |
| Catalan | brindar,torrar | Danish | skåle |
| English | toast | Faroese | skála |
| Finnish | paahtaa, skoolata | German | bähen, toasten |
| Hawaiian | inu hoʻomaikaʻi | Hebrew | קלה |
| Italian | abbruscare, abbrusciare, abbrustiare, tostare | Lithuanian | kepinti, skrudinti |
| Norwegian | riste, skåle | Polish | opiec |
| Portuguese | brindar, tostar | Quechua | watyay |
| Spanish | brindar, torrar, tostar | Swedish | rosta, rota, skåla |
| Thai | ปิ้ง | Turkish | kadeh kaldırmak |