Danish
| Example in Danish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| De kan vride en piges hjerte sa let som... nogen kan vride hendes arm om og skade hende. | You can twist the heart in a girl just as easily as some can twist her arms to hurt her. |
| Det føles godt at vride kniven rundt. | Feels good to twist the knife. |
| Vi kan vride os i alle mulige ubehagelige positioner, bare at opretholde fremtoning, med eller uden hjul og stejle. | We can twist ourselves into all manner of uncomfortable positions just to maintain appearances, with or without a breaking wheel. |
| - Man kan jo være uheldig. Få noget dårligt at spise. Eller vride om på foden. | Everybody can get unlucky, eat something bad or twist their ankle. |
| - Behøver du vride armen om på mig? | Come on, Joey. You have to twist my arm? |
| Så vrider han armen om på mig. | Then he twists my arm. |
| De tager ens ord og vrider dem, indtil man siger, hvad de gerne vil høre. | l mean, they just take your words and they twist them around until you say whatever it is they want you to say. |
| Hopper og vrider sig, som om han prøvede at slippe væk. | Jumping and twisting, like he was trying to escape. |
| Og så tager han en bøjle og vrider den og brændemærker sine initialer i dem, så de aldrig glemmer ham. | And then he takes a wire hanger and twists it round and brands his initials into each one of them so they will never ever forget. |
| Jeg tror, du er en mand med utallige rænker der vrider og snor sig, så selv den Gordiske Knude står til skamme. | I believe you a man of infinite plots, twisting upon themselves to shame Gordian knot. |
| Godt, du vred min arm om. | Okay, you twisted my arm. |
| Du skar mig op og vred mine æggestokke om, så de så døde ud. | What's the big leap, Jed? You cut me open, stuck your hands in, twisted my ovaries, so they look all dead. Excuse me, necrotic. |
| - Jeg vred om på anklen. | - I twisted my ankle. |
| - Jeg vred om på foden. | - I twisted my ankle. |
| Du vred det om! | You twisted my arm like a maniac! Oh no! |
| - Hvad? Jeg ved ikke. Jeg er til insekter og jord, men hun sagde "vrid", "drej" og "snit". | I don't know, I do bugs and silt, but she said the words "torsion" and "twist" and "cut". |
| Træk og vrid, okay? | Okay, pull and twist, okay? |
| Hold ud, kaptajn, jeg giver den bare et lille vrid her. | Hang on, Cap. I'm just going to give a little twist here. |
| - Bare et vrid. | Just one twist, man. |
| - Et stik efterfulgt af et vrid. | Indicative of a stab-and-twist movement. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | verbuig | Arabic | لوى |
| Azeri | burmaq | Catalan | torçar,tòrcer |
| 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 | Swedish | twista |
| Thai | กระบิด, ตีเกลียว, บิด, เอี้ยว | Turkish | burkulmak, büğemek |
| Vietnamese | uẩn khúc, xoắn xuýt |