| Example in Finnish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Ja heinäsirkat peittivät koko maan. Niin että maa tummui. Ja ne söivät jokaisen yrtin..." | "And the locusts covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they did eat every herb of the land... |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | غمض | Dutch | verdonkeren,verduisteren, versomberen |
| English | darken | Esperanto | mallumigi |
| Estonian | hämarduma, tumendama, tumestama | French | assombrir, enténébrer, obscurcir |
| German | dunkeln, verdunkeln | Greek | σκοτεινιάζω, σκουληκιάζω, σκουντιέμαι, σκουντουφλιάζω |
| Hungarian | elsötétít | Icelandic | dekkja, dökkna |
| Indonesian | menggelapkan | Italian | abbuiare, incupire, infoscare, infoscarsi, intenebrare, intenebrarsi, offuscare, ottenebrare, rabbuiarsi, scurire |
| Lithuanian | tamsėti, temdyti | Macedonian | затемни |
| Norwegian | mørkne | Polish | chmurnieć, ciemnić, ciemnieć, mierzchnąć, mrocznieć, mroczyć, nachmurzyć, posępnieć, przyciemniać, przyciemnić, ściemnieć, zmrocznieć |
| Portuguese | anoitecer | Romanian | înnegura, întuneca |
| Russian | вечереть, затемнить, затемнять, омрачать, омрачить, потемнеть, темнеть, темнить | Spanish | ensombrecerse, entenebrecer, oscurecer, oscurecerse |
| Swedish | mörkna | Turkish | koyulaştırmak |
| Vietnamese | làm tội |