Danish
| Example in Danish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| De må mene nogle andre træer. | You must mean two other trees. You had me worried. |
| Du kan da ikke mene det, du siger. | You don't really mean what you are saying. |
| Donny, du kan ikke kysse mig sådan og ikke mene spor med det. | You couldn't kiss me like that and not mean it just a teensy bit. |
| - Hvad skulle jeg ellers mene? | - What else could I have meant? |
| Hvad skal vi mene? | I mean, what are we supposed to believe? |
| - Hvad mener du? | - What do you mean? |
| Nej, jeg mener, at ingen af os ved det hele. | No, I mean that none of us know the whole truth. |
| Hvad mener du? | What do you mean? |
| Hvad mener du med, "Ja og nej"? | What do you mean, "yes and no"? |
| Jeg mener, senere i dag. | I mean, later today. |
| Så, hvad vil du? Jeg prøvede at finde ud af hvad generalen mente da han talte om det mystiske... | I was trying to find out what the general meant when he said about the mysteries... |
| - Forklare dem hvad generalen mente. | - Explain to them what the general meant. |
| Det var det, jeg mente. | Well, that's what I meant. |
| - Jeg mente: "Hvordan går det?" | - No, I meant, "How are you?" |
| Jeg mente ikke yachten. Jeg mente... | I didn't mean the yacht, I meant the... |
| Jeg vil nødigt være ufin, men hvis jeg var dig, tog jeg fastekuren. | I don't mean to offend you, but why don't you go for the fast? |
| O'Connor, jeg ville ringe i går men nåede det ikke. | O'Connor, I meant to call you up yesterday, but I didn't get around to it. |
| Jeg ville sige det i går aftes, men jeg kom fra det. | I meant to tell you about him last night, but I guess it slipped my mind. |
| Der er kun 12 små bogstaver i sætningen. som du ved. Men de betyder mere end alle andre ord tilsammen. | There are only 8 little letters in this phrase, you will find, but they mean a lot more than all the other words combined. |
| Men jeg mener Mullen og McHardie. | But the fellas I mean are Mullen and McHardie. |
| Den sidste var ikke ment til dig. | Sorry. I meant that last one for somebody else. |
| Du var ment for mig og jeg var ment for dig. | You were meant for me And I was meant for you |
| Er det ikke sådan et liv, vi var ment til at leve her på jorden? | Don't you sometimes feel this is the kind of life we were meant to live? |
| Det var ikke ondt ment, og jeg værdsætter, at du reddede mit liv. | l meant no offence, and l appreciate you saving my life and all. |
| Det var jo ikke sådan ment. | It was not meant like that. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | عنى,قصد | Catalan | significar |
| Dutch | bedoelen, beduiden, betekenen, menen | English | mean |
| Esperanto | signifi | Faroese | merkja |
| Finnish | meinata, tarkoittaa | French | vouloir |
| German | bedeuten, besagen | Greek | εννοώ, σημαίνω |
| Hungarian | jelent | Indonesian | berarti |
| Italian | intendere, significare | Japanese | 意味 |
| Latvian | nozīmēt | Lithuanian | reikšti |
| Macedonian | значи | Malay | berarti |
| Norwegian | bety, meina | Polish | oznaczać, znaczyć |
| Portuguese | querer dizer, significar, tencionar | Romanian | însemna |
| Russian | значить, означать | Swedish | betyda, betyga, innebära, mena |
| Thai | หมาย, หมายความ | Turkish | anlamına gelmek |