| Example in Norwegian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Han døde ikke av elde. | He didn't die of old age. |
| Stress elder kvinner før tiden. Stress får DNA til å krympe... helt til cellene ikke kan fornye seg. | Severe stress makes women age prematurely because stress causes DNA in our cells to shrink until they can no longer replicate. |
| For å være sikker på at jeg skulle finne hans mor, fortalte han at hun bodde i Alf eld, og at pikenavnet var Hartman. | To make sure that I was able to find his mother, to deliver the message, he told me that she lived in Alfeld and that her maiden name was Hartman. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | لسن | Catalan | envellir |
| Danish | ælde | Dutch | verouderen |
| English | age | Estonian | vanandama |
| Finnish | ikääntyä,vanheta | German | altern, vergreisen |
| Hungarian | vénít, vénül | Indonesian | ketuaan |
| Italian | senilizzare | Japanese | 老いる, 老化 |
| Macedonian | старее | Polish | dziadzieć, zbabieć |
| Portuguese | envelhecer | Romanian | îmbătrâni |
| Spanish | añejar, envejecerse | Swedish | åldras, åligga |
| Turkish | çağmak |