| Example in Turkish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| "...bir kereliğine de olsa davanla ilgisiz bir mektup yazmak istedim. | "... I thought for once I'd write you a letter - that wasn't about your case. |
| "...hakaretten sonra ona aşk mektubu yazmak mantıklı mı?" | she says, "that so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him?" |
| "20 dakikalık gövde, eş zamanlı rap yazmak bu, | "20 minutes flat, write a rap in real time, |
| "Bu kutuda zehirli zıplayan böcekler var. " yazmak üzereydim, ...ama sonra düşündüm, "ya bu keçeli kalem... | I was about to write, uh, "This Box Contains Poisonous Jumping Bugs," but then I thought, "What if this magic marker |
| "Bu yazmak zorunda kaldığım en zor mektup." | This is the hardest letter I've ever had to write." |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | skryf | Arabic | كتب |
| Azeri | yazmaq | Basque | idatzi |
| Catalan | escriure | Danish | skrive |
| Dutch | neerschrijven,opschrijven, schrijven, wegschrijven | English | write |
| Esperanto | skribi, verki | Estonian | kirjutama |
| Faroese | rita, skriva | Finnish | kirjoitella, kirjoittaa, rustata |
| French | écrire | German | abfassen, schreiben, zurückschreiben |
| Greek | αρθρογραφώ, αριθμούμαι, αριστερίζω, γράφω, συγγράφω, συγκεκριμενοποιούμαι, συγκεράζω, συγκλονίζω, συγκομίζομαι, συγκομίζω, συγκυβερνώ | Hawaiian | kākau |
| Hebrew | כתב | Hungarian | ír, megír |
| Icelandic | rita, skrifa | Indonesian | menulis |
| Italian | redigere, scrivere | Japanese | 執筆, 著す, 綴る |
| Latvian | rakstīt | Lithuanian | parašyti, rašyti |
| Macedonian | напише, пише, пишува | Maltese | kiteb |
| Maori | tuhituhi | Norwegian | skriva, skrive |
| Persian | نوشتن | Polish | napisać, pisać, pisywać, wypisać |
| Portuguese | escrever, redigir | Quechua | qillqay |
| Romanian | scrie | Russian | написать, писать, пописать, пописывать, сочинить, сочинять, черкнуть |
| Spanish | escribir | Swedish | dikta, diktera, författa, förfäkta, förfära, skrifva, skriva |
| Thai | เขียน, ลิขิต | Vietnamese | đề, thảo, viết |