| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Видимо, ей никогда не давали достаточно времени прожевать пищу... и она ждет, пока пища не развалится во рту. | Apparently, she was never given enough time to chew her food... so she waits for it to break down in her mouth. |
| Им меня не прожевать. | They wouldn't know what to do with all this. |
| Но думаю, сможете заставить себя прожевать? | But I reckon you can choke it down, don't you? |
| Мы его прожевали и выплюнули, не так ли? | We chewed him up and just spat him out, didn't we? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | مضغ | Azeri | çeynəmək |
| Catalan | mastegar,masticar | Danish | tygge |
| Dutch | fijnkauwen, kauwen, stukbijten, voorkauwen | English | chew |
| Esperanto | maĉi | Estonian | mäluma, närima, nätsutama |
| Finnish | pureksia | French | macher, mâcher, mâchonner, mordiller |
| German | kauen, zerbeißen, zerkauen | Greek | μασουλίζω, μαστίζω, μαστουριάζω, μασώ, ματαγυρίζω, ματίζω, ματσακονίζω, μεγαλύνω |
| Hungarian | rág | Indonesian | mengunyah |
| Italian | masticare | Japanese | 齧る |
| Lithuanian | kramtyti | Macedonian | изџвака, џвака |
| Norwegian | tygge, tyggja | Polish | pogryźć, przeżuć, rozgryzać, zgryźć, zzuć, zżuć, żuć |
| Portuguese | mastigar | Romanian | mesteca |
| Spanish | masticar | Swedish | tugga, tukta |
| Thai | ขบฉัน, เคี้ยว | Turkish | çiğnemek, çiğnenmek, çiğnetmek, düşünüp taşınmak |
| Vietnamese | nhai, nhại |