| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| " Waarom ben je dan ook geen advocaat geworden net als je nicht Trudy? " | "why didn't you become a lawyer like your cousin Trudy?" And the way she said it, |
| "Alle duidelijk geworden" toen hij dit krijgt. | "All become clear" when he gets this. |
| "Alles in deze wereld is inhoudsloos en oppervlakkig geworden... en je hebt Gods boodschap uit 't oog verloren. | "Everything about this world has become vacuous and shallow, and you've - all lost sight of God's message. " |
| "Arbeiders" bracht de economist Sebastião Salgado samen met de artiest die hij was geworden. | "Workers" managed to unite the Sebastião Salgado economist with the artist in which he had become. |
| "De 2 hoofden waren al 1 geworden ." | "Already the two heads had one become. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | bëhem | Arabic | أصبح,أضحى, أمسى, صار |
| Basque | baserritartu | Catalan | esdevenir |
| Danish | blive, vorde | 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 |
| 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 |