| Example in Catalan | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| El gos torna a udolar. | The dog howled again. |
| # Fes-me udolar a la lluna # | # Make me howl at the moon # |
| -Escolteu, Tom: diuen que un gos esgarriat va compareixer udolant al volt de la casa de Johnny Miller, per alla a la mitja nit, fa unes dues setmanes; i un enganyapastors entra i s'atura a la barana i canta, el mateix vespre; i encara no s'hi ha mort ningú. | "Say, Tom--they say a stray dog come howling around Johnny Miller's house, 'bout midnight, as much as two weeks ago; and a whippoorwill come in and lit on the banisters and sung, the very same evening; and there ain't anybody dead there yet." |
| Una cosa que mai he pogut tolerar... és veure a un vell borratxo i brut... udolant les cançons dels seus pares... mentre eructa com si... ...com si tingués una horrorosa orquestra dins les seva podrida boca. | One thing I could never stand... ... was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie... ...howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers... ...and going "blerp blerp" in between... ...as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking guts. |
| Els podia sentir udolant a la nit. | He could hear them howling in the night. |
| Una cosa que mai he pogut tolerar... és veure a un vell borratxo i brut... udolant les cançons dels seus pares... mentre eructa com si... Mai he pogut veure a ningú així, tingués l'edat que tingués. | One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going "blerp blerp" in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking guts. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | عوى | Danish | tude |
| Dutch | uitbrullen | English | howl |
| Esperanto | ululi | Estonian | ulguma,uluma |
| Finnish | ulista, ulvoa, vonkua | German | jaulen |
| Greek | σκούζω | Hungarian | beleüvölt, sí, üvölt, vonít, vonyít |
| Icelandic | emja, góla, ýla | Indonesian | gonggong, meraung |
| Italian | latrare, ululare | Latvian | gaudot |
| Lithuanian | kaukti, kniaukti, staugti | Macedonian | завива |
| Malay | gonggong | Polish | wyć |
| Portuguese | uivar, urrar | Russian | взвыть, выть, завывать, завыть |
| Spanish | aullar | Swedish | stortjuta, vina, vinda |
| Thai | หอน | Turkish | ulumak |
| Vietnamese | tru tréo |