| Example in Polish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| /I mimo całej potęgi Korony, /często trąciła ona swe okręty /z powodu głodu, burz, /sztormów oraz piratów. | And for all the crown's might, its ships were often lost to starvation, to storm and tempest, and to pirates. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | verloor | Danish | miste |
| Dutch | kwijtraken,kwijtspelen, verliezen, verspelen | English | lose |
| Esperanto | malgajni, malvenki | Estonian | kaotama |
| Faroese | missa, tapa | French | déperdre |
| German | einbüßen, verbaseln, verlieren, verschlampen, verschludern | Greek | εκπίπτω, χάνω |
| Hungarian | elveszít, elveszt, veszít, veszt | Icelandic | missa, tapa, týna |
| Italian | discapitare, perdere, rimetterci, scapitare, smarrire | Japanese | 失う, 敗れる, 敗北, 負ける, 紛失, 無くす |
| Latvian | zaudēt | Lithuanian | netekti, pamesti, pralaimėti, pralošti, prarasti |
| Norwegian | tapa, tape | Portuguese | perder |
| Romanian | pierde | Russian | лишаться |
| Spanish | perder |
