| Example in Norwegian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Du overtar avslutningsdebatten- og blir fast vert på de store nyhetssendingene. | You take over the final debate - and become the prime-time anchor. |
| - Det ble vart livsmotto. | - That became our credo. |
| Narjeg ser dette biIdet, tenkerjeg pa hvordan det kunne ha vart, hvordan det var og hvordan det bIe | When I see this photo I think of how it could have been, how it was and especially, how it became. |
| De vart altfor markedskåta. | You became too commercial. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | bëhem | Arabic | أصبح,أضحى, أمسى, صار |
| Basque | baserritartu | Catalan | esdevenir |
| Danish | blive, vorde | Dutch | geworden |
| 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 |
| 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 |