| Example in Spanish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Escuchame, ¿y por eso te pusiste a afanar remedios en el hospital? | Listen, so you got to steal meds from the hospital? |
| Ch, ven¡ a buscar a tu mujer que te la afano, ¨eh? | Come and get your wife, or I'll steal her from you! |
| Acá nadie te afana la placa de bronce, ni las flores. | Here, nobody steals your bronze plaque or your flowers. |
| Me afané la prueba del aula de Kowchevski, | I stole it from Kowchevski's office. |
| Debe haber sido el mismo mirlo que le afanó la cartera al camarero... | It must've been the same crook who stole the bartender's wallet... |
| - Se afanaron las joyas de la viuda. | - They stole the widow's jewels. Now what? |
| Me afanaron el celular, boludo. | They stole my cell phone. |
| Negro, entraron en casa y se afanaron la computadora. | - They've stolen my computer. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | سرق,لص | Danish | jøde, rane, stjæle |
| Dutch | ontstelen, ontvreemden, stelen | English | steal |
| Faroese | stjala | Finnish | nyysiä, pölliä, rosmota, varastaa |
| German | fladern, mitgehen lassen, stehlen | Greek | κλέβω |
| Hebrew | גנב | Hungarian | csór, ellop, lop |
| Indonesian | mencuri, menggondol | Italian | involare, rubare, trafugare |
| Japanese | 掻っ払う, 盗む | Latvian | zagt |
| Lithuanian | apsivogti, apšvarinti, pasivogti, pavogti, privogti, vogti | Macedonian | краде |
| Malay | curi, mencuri | Maltese | seraq |
| Maori | whānako | Norwegian | stela, stjele |
| Persian | دزدی کردن, دزدیدن | Polish | kraść, nakraść, skraść, ukraść, wykraść |
| Portuguese | furtar, roubar, surripiar, surrupiar | Quechua | suway |
| Romanian | fura | Russian | воровать, красть, натаскивать, проскальзывать, проскользнуть, своровать, спиздить, украсть |
| Swedish | stjäla | Thai | ขโมย, จิก |
| Turkish | çalmak | Vietnamese | ăn cắp, ăn trộm, giựt, trộm |