| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Soppa sen kun sakenee. | And the plot thickens. Who's that? |
| Ilma sakenee, vesi pilaantuu. | As the air thickens, the water sours. |
| Ja juoni sakenee. Mitä siinä lukee? | Ah, the plot thickens. |
| Mysteeri sakenee, kerropa siitä. | The plot thickens. Tell me about it. |
| Veresi sakenee suonissasi mansikkahillomaiseksi. | It's when the blood thickens up in your veins like strawberry jam. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ثخن,سمك, غلظ | Dutch | indikken, individualiseren, verdikken |
| English | thicken | Esperanto | dikigi |
| Estonian | pahtuma, paksendama, paksenema, tihkendama, tihkenema, tihkestuma | French | épaissir |
| German | andicken | Hungarian | vastagodik |
| Indonesian | mempertebal, mengental | Italian | addensare, addensarsi, infittire, infittirsi, infoltire, inspessire, inspessirsi, ispessire, ispessirsi, raddensare, rinfittire, rinfittirsi, spessire |
| Lithuanian | storinti | Macedonian | згусне, се згусне |
| Polish | gęstnieć, grubieć, pogrubiać, pogrubić, pogrubieć, ugęszczać, zagęszczać, zagęścić, zgęszczać, zgrubieć | Portuguese | encorpar, engrossar |
| Russian | густеть, загустеть, застывать, застыть, погустеть, сгустить, сгущать | Spanish | engrosarse, espesar, espesarse |
| Swedish | reda, tjockna | Turkish | kalınlaşmak, kalınlaştırmak, sıklaştırmak |