| Example in Portuguese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| O jantar de ontem com o Sr. Euler e o professor Bernoulli descambou em brindes em honra de todos os teoremas que os Bernoullis e Euler provaram, e, meu Deus, não foram nada poucos. | Last night's dinner with Mr Euler and Professor Bernoulli degenerated into toasts to all the theorems the Bernoullis and Eulers have proved, and by God, they have proved quite a lot of them! |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danish | degenerere | Dutch | ontaarden,verloederen, verworden |
| English | degenerate | Esperanto | degeneri |
| Estonian | degenereeruma, väärastama, väärastuma | Finnish | degeneroida, degeneroitua, rappeuttaa, rappeutua |
| French | dégénérer | German | abarten, ausarten |
| Greek | εκφυλίζω, εκχειλίζω, εκχιονίζω, εκχυλίζω | Hungarian | degenerál, elkorcsosodik |
| Italian | imbastardirsi, snaturarsi, tralignare | Japanese | 退化 |
| Macedonian | дегенерира | Polish | degenerować, nikczemnieć, przerodzić, wyrodnieć, zdegenerować, zwyrodnieć |
| Spanish | degenerar | Thai | ทราม |
| Turkish | soysuzlaşmak | Vietnamese | suy biến, thoái hóa |