| Example in French | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Et ainsi ont coïncidé vos lèvres... en un long, ardent et passionné... | It was a coincidence, I suppose that your lips just happened to meet in a long, ardent, passionate... You keep out of this. |
| Même si mon aventure avec Zijlstra m'avait passionné et si l'humour noir de la situation ne me laissait pas de glace, cet horrible sentiment indescriptible m'envahit à nouveau. | Even though I had to admit the adventure with Zijlstra had enthralled me and I had to acknowledge the dark humour of what happened, once again I had that uncomfortable feeling that I couldn't put a name to. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | حدث,حصل | Catalan | passar, succeir |
| Danish | foregå, forekomme | Dutch | gebeuren, geschieden, overkomen, toegaan, voorvallen |
| English | happen | Faroese | henda |
| Finnish | sattua, tapahtua | German | begeben, erfolgen, geschehen, gestalten, vorfallen, vorgehen |
| Greek | συμβαίνω, τυχαίνω | Hebrew | קרה |
| Hungarian | adódik, előfordul, játszódik, történik | Indonesian | terjadi |
| Italian | accadere, avvenire, capitare, contingere, intravenire | Japanese | 起こる |
| Latvian | notikt | Lithuanian | atsitikti, įvykti, nutikti |
| Macedonian | бидне, се случи, се случува | Norwegian | hende, inntreffe, skje |
| Polish | przydarzyć, wydarzyć, zdarzać, zdarzyć | Portuguese | acontecer, suceder |
| Quechua | tukuy | Romanian | întâmpla, nimeri |
| Russian | приключаться, приключиться, свершаться, свершиться, совершаться, совершиться | Spanish | acaecer, acontecer, devenir, ocurrir, producirse, suceder, supervenir |
| Swedish | försiggå, hända, inträffa, pågå, ske | Vietnamese | xảy ra |