| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| А что станется с нами? | What will become of us? |
| Я... Я... Что станется со мной? | What will become of me? |
| "Он имел уже несколько жен и никто на свете на знал, что с ними сталось. | "He had already married several women. "No one knew what became of them. |
| -А что сталось с этой девушкой? | - What became of the lady? |
| И что же сталось с малышкой-мартышкой... | ♪ and what became of the monkety, monkety, monk... ♪ |
| 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 |
| Norwegian | bli, verta, verte | Persian | شدن |
| Portuguese | ficar | Quechua | t'ikray |
| Romanian | deveni | Spanish | convertirse, tornarse, volverse |
| Swedish | bli, blifva, blinka, bliva, blixtra, glädja | Thai | กลับกลาย, กลาย |
| Turkish | olmak | Vietnamese | hoá, thành, trở nên, trở thành |