| Example in German | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Es kam zu einem langjährigen, blutigen Krieg. Die Sklaven gewannen. Die Herren wurden die Sklaven. | The war was bloody, waged for many years, but eventually the slaves triumphed and the masters became the slaves. |
| 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 | Finnish | adaptoitua, adsorboitua, aktivoitua, ammatillistua, assimiloitua, grillautua, halvaantua, hankaloitua, huumaantua, huvittua, häiriintyä, ilahtua, inspiroitua, institutionaalistua, institutionalisoitua, ionisoitua, järjestyä, kaunistua, kehkeytyä, komplisoitua |
| French | abeausir, abecquer, devenir | 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 |