| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Приезжие нахлынули в Италию как наводнение. | Visitors swept through Italia like a flash flood. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | fshij | Arabic | كنس |
| Azeri | süpürmək | Dutch | opvegen,uitvagen, vegen, wegvegen |
| English | sweep | Esperanto | balai, forbalai |
| Estonian | puhkima | Finnish | laasta, lakaista |
| French | balayer, ramoner | German | kehren |
| Greek | σκουπίζω, σκουραίνω | Hungarian | seper, söpör |
| Icelandic | sópa | Indonesian | menyapu |
| Italian | ramazzare, scopare, spazzare | Lithuanian | iššluoti, šluoti |
| Macedonian | мете | Maori | tahi |
| Norwegian | feie | Polish | obmieść, omiatać, omieść, podmiatać, pomiatać, pozamiatać, przemiatać, wymiatać, wymieść, zamiatać, zmieść |
| Portuguese | varrer | Quechua | pichay |
| Romanian | mătura | Spanish | abarrer, barrer, deshollinar, escobar |
| Swedish | sopa | Thai | กวาด, ปัด |
| Turkish | süpürmek | Vietnamese | quét, quẹt, quét dọn, quét tước, quệt |