| Example in Norwegian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Eg gløymde denne milde røysta og dine reine andletsdrag. | And I forgot your tender voice, your features so divine. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | harroj | Arabic | نسي |
| Azeri | unutmaq | Basque | ahaztu |
| Catalan | oblidar | Danish | forglemme,glemme |
| Dutch | vergeten | English | forget |
| Esperanto | forgesigi | Faroese | gloyma |
| Finnish | unhoittaa, unhottaa, unohdella, unohtaa | French | oublier |
| German | vergessen, verlernen | Greek | ξεχνώ |
| Hawaiian | poina | Hebrew | שכח |
| Hungarian | elfelejt, feled, felejt | Icelandic | gleyma |
| Indonesian | lupa, lupakan, melupakan | Italian | dimenticare, disimprimere, obliare, obliarsi, scordare |
| Latvian | aizmirst, piemirst | Lithuanian | pamiršti, užmiršti |
| Macedonian | заборава, заборави, изумува | Malay | lupa |
| Maltese | nesa | Persian | به فراموشی سپردن, فراموش کردن |
| Polish | zapominać, zapomnieć | Portuguese | esquecer, olvidar |
| Quechua | qunqay | Romanian | uita |
| Russian | забывать, забыть, запамятовать | Spanish | desaprender, olvidar, olvidarse |
| Swedish | förgäta, förtrolla, förtränga, förtvina, glömma | Thai | ลืม, หลงลืม |
| Turkish | unutmak | Vietnamese | quen, quên, quện, quên lãng |