| Example in Swedish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Du kan ju twista. | See you can twist. |
| Kan du twista? | - This is the twist. You know the twist? |
| Kom och twista med mig. | Come twist with me. |
| Man måste äta, så man orkar twista! | You've gotta eat to twist all night long. |
| Emma Twist twistar. | Emma Twist is twisting'. Emma Twist is twisting'. |
| Han twistar bara med mig. | He doesn't twist with anybody but me. |
| Nu twistar vi, som vi gjorde i somras. | # Come on, let's twist again, like we did last summer, yeah, yeah! |
| Nu twistar vi, som vi inte gjorde i Moskva, för jag är engelsk person. | # Let's twist again, like we didn't do in Moscow # 'Cause I've never been there. I am English person. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | verbuig | Arabic | لوى |
| Azeri | burmaq | Catalan | torçar,tòrcer |
| Danish | vride | Dutch | ineendraaien, torderen |
| English | twist | Esperanto | tordi |
| Estonian | keerduma | Finnish | vääristellä |
| French | retordre, torsader, tortiller | German | verdrehen, zwirnen |
| Hungarian | csavar | Indonesian | memelintir, memilin, memuntir, menggeliat, puntir |
| Italian | attorcigliare, attorcigliarsi, avviticchiare, avviticchiarsi, contorcere, distorcere, ritorcere, storcere, storcersi, stortare, svergolare, torcere | Japanese | 畝る, 捻る, 拗ける, 捩る |
| Lithuanian | susukti | Macedonian | извитка, изврти |
| Maori | whiri | Norwegian | tvinne |
| Persian | پیچیدن | Polish | pogiąć, przeinaczać, przekręcić, wykręcać, zwichrować |
| Portuguese | torcer | Quechua | kachuy, q'iwiy |
| Russian | закрутиться, закручиваться, крутить, покрутить, скрутить, скручивать | Spanish | torcer, torcerse |
| Thai | กระบิด, ตีเกลียว, บิด, เอี้ยว | Turkish | burkulmak, büğemek |
| Vietnamese | uẩn khúc, xoắn xuýt |