| Example in Japanese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| 振った。 | Swung on. |
| 賢いわ！ 振って！ | Clever girl! |
| 振れ! | Swing! |
| -振り・・ | - Cast... you...! |
| -振り・・ -ここで何してる | Who are you? Who are thou foulings? |
| "振り"は 必要なときだけに | And you look handsome. Let's not pretend any more than we have to. |
| 彼女が ふった | She broke things off. You got time to talk? |
| しんだ・・ ふり・・・ | Be dead. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | waai | Arabic | موج |
| Danish | vinke | Dutch | wuiven,wurgen |
| English | wave | Esperanto | flagri, mansaluti |
| Estonian | hõljutama, lehvitama, onduleerima, sakitama, viibutama | Faroese | veittra |
| Finnish | aallota, aaltoilla, heilutella, heiluttaa, hyrskytä, kähertää, lainehtia, viittilöidä, viittoa, vilkuttaa | German | wedeln, wellen |
| Greek | κυματίζω, κυμβαλίζω, κυριολεκτώ, κυριολεχτώ | Hungarian | beint, int, integet, lobog |
| Indonesian | melambai, melambaikan | Italian | dimenare, ondulare, sbandierare, sventolare |
| Lithuanian | maskatuoti, mojuoti, mosikuoti, mosuoti, moti, nuvilnyti, plevėsuoti, vilnyti | Macedonian | мавта |
| Norwegian | vaie, vinke | Polish | machać, ondulować, pofalować, pomachać, wymachiwać, zafalować |
| Portuguese | ondear | Romanian | învălura |
| Russian | виться, махать, махнуть, помахать, помахивать | Spanish | ondear, ondular |
| Swedish | bölja, vinka, vinkla |