Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
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Jotta kaunistut ja nuorrut vuosi vuodelta | That you become prettier year by year, and that you are forever youthful |
Sinä se vaan kaunistut päivä päivältä. | You become more beautiful every day. |
Käsityöläisten mukaan teekannu kaunistuu käytössä. | The great artisans say the more the teapot is used the more beau t iful it becomes. |
Olet kovasti kaunistunut poissa ollessani. | - No! You've become so pretty since the last time I saw you. |
Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
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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 |