| Example in Swedish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Allt var repar upp sig. | Everything was unravelling. |
| Du börjar en långsam, smärtsam repar upp, som alla bra saker som kom före börjar krossas av sopkomprimeringsanordning av sorg. | You begin a slow, painful unraveling, as all the good things that came before begin to be crushed by the trash compactor of sadness. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | ontrafelen,uiteenrafelen | English | unravel |
| Esperanto | malimpliki | Faroese | rekja |
| Finnish | harsuuntua, kehittää, purkaantua | French | déliter, délivrer, détoronner, détricoter |
| German | aufribbeln | Greek | ξηλώνω, ξημερώνω |
| Italian | dipanare, dipanarsi, districare, sbrogliare, sfioccare, strigare | Latvian | atminēt |
| Lithuanian | atnarplioti, išnarplioti, narplioti | Portuguese | desemaranhar, desenlaçar, desfiar, deslindar |
| Romanian | descurca, desfira, destrăma | Russian | разгадать, разгадывать |
| Spanish | desenmarañar, deshebrar, deshilvanar, desmadejar |