| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Mutta hän ilahtui, ja hän puhui ja hellitteli sitä. | But he became tied to it. He talked and cuddled with it. |
| Mutta hän ei ilahdu tästä löytymisestä, koska, tultuaan sokeaksi kerjäläiseksi, hän tulee vaeltamaan vierailla mailla kuten minä, kurja huilunsoittaja. | But he'll not rejoice in this discovery, because, having become a blind beggar, he'll wander through foreign lands like me, wretched flute-player. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | bëhem | Arabic | أصبح,أضحى, أمسى, صار |
| Basque | baserritartu | Catalan | esdevenir |
| Danish | blive, vorde | Dutch | geworden |
| English | become | Estonian | muutuma, saama |
| Faroese | blíva, verða | French | abeausir, abecquer, devenir |
| German | werden, zukommen | Greek | γίνομαι |
| Hungarian | lesz, válik | Icelandic | blífa |
| Italian | divenire, diventare, illeggiadrirsi, rimbecillire | Japanese | なる, 成る |
| Latvian | kļūst, kļūt, tapt | Lithuanian | patapti, tapti, virsti |
| Macedonian | стане | Norwegian | bli, verta, verte |
| Persian | شدن | Portuguese | ficar |
| Quechua | t'ikray | Romanian | deveni |
| Russian | делаться, подобать, сделаться, статься | Spanish | convertirse, tornarse, volverse |
| Swedish | bli, blifva, blinka, bliva, blixtra, glädja | Thai | กลับกลาย, กลาย |
| Turkish | olmak | Vietnamese | hoá, thành, trở nên, trở thành |