| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Таксист отказался везти мистера Бакстера из-за ужасной вони | The taxi declined to convey Mr Baxter on account of the terrible pong. Pong? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | zë | Arabic | اتخذ,أخذ, ألق, خذ, خذي |
| Azeri | götürmək, qəbul etmək | Catalan | agafar, prendre |
| Danish | tage | Dutch | nemen, pakken |
| English | take | Esperanto | eltiri, forpreni, kunpreni, postresti, preni, venkopreni |
| Faroese | fáa, taka, vara | Finnish | harppailla, kierrättää, ottaa, riistää, viedä |
| French | aveindre, avenir | German | entnehmen, hinnehmen, nehmen |
| Greek | παίρνω | Hebrew | הוציא, לקח |
| Icelandic | taka | Indonesian | ambil, menempuh, mengambil |
| Italian | incassare, levare, menare, metterci, prendere, volerci | Japanese | 採る, 離陸 |
| Latvian | ņemt, paņemt | Lithuanian | atimti, ėmėti, imti, nusivesti, paimti, pasiimti |
| Macedonian | зема, земе, однесе | Malay | ambil |
| Maltese | ħa | Norwegian | taka |
| Persian | ستدن | Polish | brać, podejmować, powziąć, przedsięwziąć, przybierać, wziąć, zabierać, zabrać, zażyć, zażywać |
| Portuguese | aproveitar, levar, tirar, tomar | Romanian | lua |
| Spanish | aguantar, coger, copar, llevar, tomar, tomarse | Swedish | gå, rymma, vidtaga |
| Thai | อวตาร | Turkish | alalamak, almak |
| Vietnamese | dĩ, lay, lạy, lây, lẩy, lẫy, lấy, nhận lấy |