| Example in Catalan | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Emiliano Longo, un dels cervells de Nicobis, que ocupa un càrrec que podríem descriure com a director creatiu, és pare. Té una nena de tres anys "a qui anomeno princesa, i vull mossegar-me la llengua per fer-ho". | He has a three-year-old girl "who sometimes I call 'princess' and then I want to bite my tongue". |
| Abans de poder dir res, la va mossegar i es va desplomar. | Before I could say anything, he bite it and fell down. |
| Tendeix a mossegar més del que pot mastegar. | He tends to bite off more than he can chew. |
| Però no havia de mossegar, i ja està? | But didn't he just have to bite? |
| Tots aquells que no ho hagin fet, em poden mossegar tant com vulguin. | But they can just go bite me. Those who haven't already. |
| Sé que no faig gaire goig, ara mateix però no mossego, sap? | Yes, I'm not a very pretty sight at the moment, but I don't bite. |
| - No mossego! | - I don't bite! |
| No mossego. | I don't bite. I promise. |
| No et preocupis... No mossego. | I don't bite. |
| - I si em mossega? | What if he bites me? |
| Un gos de merda m'ha mossegat. | I was bitten by a dog. Look. |
| Si han de ser capturats pels alemanys, mossegueu-la fort. | Will you be captured by the Germans, then bite firmly. |
| I sóc de les que mosseguen. | And I'm a biter. |
| Les puces mossegaran. | Fleas will bite! |
| Plorà i plorà i aleshores mossegà el coixí per a que no poguéssim sentir-la, i es va enganxar al làudan per poder dormir. | Wept and wept and then she bit into her pillow so we wouldn't hear her, and then she turned to laudanum to sleep at all. |
| Si claves frens, trobaré la manera de fer que això torni i et mossegui el cul. | If you put the brakes on this, I'll find a way for that to come back and bite you on the arse. |
| M'està mossegant el llavi inferior! | She's biting my lower lip! |
| El truc està en fer com si estiguessis mossegant una poma invisible. | The trick is to act like you're biting an invisible apple. (Shutter clicks) |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | byt | Albanian | kafshoj |
| Arabic | عض,عضه, نعض | Azeri | dişləmək |
| Danish | bide | Dutch | bijten, knauwen, knechten, vastbijten |
| English | bite | Esperanto | mordi |
| Faroese | bíta | Finnish | haukata, purra |
| French | mordre | German | anbeißen, beißen, hineinbeißen, verbeißen, zubeißen |
| Greek | δαγκάνω, δαγκώνω, δασώνω | Hungarian | harap, mar |
| Indonesian | gigit, menggigit | Italian | abboccare, acceffare, addentare, mordere, morsicare |
| Japanese | 噛む | Latvian | kost |
| Lithuanian | įkąsti, kandžioti, pakandžioti, perkąsti | Macedonian | гризе, гризне, каса, касне |
| Malay | gigit | Maltese | gidem |
| Norwegian | bite | Persian | گزیدن |
| Polish | gryźć, kasać, kąsać, nadjeść, nagryzać, pokąsać, przegryźć, przygryzać, przygryźć, ugryźć, ukąsić, wgryzać, wgryźć, zagryzać, zagryźć | Portuguese | abocanhar, morder |
| Quechua | kaniy, khachuy | Romanian | înțepa, mușca |
| Russian | закусить, закусывать, кусать, кусаться, прикусить, прикусывать, укусить, язвить | Spanish | morder, picar |
| Swedish | bita, bitas, nappa | Thai | กัด, เกาะแกะ |
| Turkish | ısırmak | Vietnamese | cắn, đớp |