| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Ik hoorde je sniffen. | - I heard you sniffle. |
| Mij snif-snuif-ruikt een man. | My sniff, snuff, snaff, man whiff. |
| Tante Viv, heb je misschien een anti-snif-snotter... ik-kan-niet-opstaan-pil? | Aunt Viv, I need a nighttime sniffIing, sneezing... fallen and I can't get up medicine. |
| Vince en je maatje hier op de gang zaten aan de snif snif bij dat feestje laatst. | Vince and your body double down the hall there were doing a little sniffle sniffle at the party the other night. |
| Je lijkt high, je snift constant en je hebt een coke-lepeltje. | You're acting high, you're sniffing compulsively, and you're wearing a coke spoon. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | بشم | Azeri | iyləmək |
| English | sniff | Esperanto | ekflari,snufi |
| Finnish | haistaa, impata, nuuhkaista, nuuhkia, nuuskaista, nuuskia | German | schnüffeln, schnuppern |
| Icelandic | þefa | Indonesian | mengendus |
| Italian | sniffare | Japanese | 嗅ぐ |
| Lithuanian | uostyti | Macedonian | душне |
| Polish | niuchać, obwąchać, powęszyć, siąkać, siorbać, węszyć, wywęszyć | Portuguese | farejar |
| Quechua | sinq'ay | Romanian | adulmeca |
| Russian | принюхаться, принюхиваться | Spanish | olfatear |
| Turkish | burnunu çekmek, burun kıvırmak | Vietnamese | ngửi |