| Example in Spanish | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Cuando vemos la crisis ahora, es muy f cil desenamorarse de la vida, tornarse pesimistas y desesperados. | When we look at the crisis now, it is so easy to fall out of love with life, is so easy to become pessimistic and desperate. |
| De todas formas, en mi opinión es más efectivo actuar sobre la situación que tornarse autodestructivo sometiéndose a la gula. | In my opinion, it is more effective to address the situation than it is to become self-destructive by overindulging a sweet tooth. |
| El de nuestra Sissi fue tornarse Emperatriz. | Our Sissy destiny is to become the Empress. |
| La Tierra no necesita parecerse mucho a Venus para tornarse yerma y sin vida. | The Earth need not resemble Venus very closely for it to become barren and lifeless. |
| En aquel tiempo... pensé que me hubiese tornado un genuino anciano. | At the time... I thought I had become a genuine old man. |
| En tres meses los jóvenes becerros se han tornado bulliciosos y saltan por todos lados en señal de buena salud. | In three months the young calves become boisterous and bounce with good health. |
| Estamos entrando en la zona penumbrosa... un extraño mundo de penumbra, donde la mayoría de los animales se han tornado completamente transparentes. | We are entering the twilight zone... a weird world of gloom, where many animals have become completely transparent. |
| Estos inteligentes y sensibles gigantes, se han tornado muy, muy perturbados. | These intelligent, sensitive giants have become very, very disturbed. |
| Francamente la comunidad negra se ha tornado un espectáculo el resto... | Quite frankly, the black community has become entertainment for the rest of the community. Meaning what? |
| ¿crees que Soho está tornándose demasiado comercial? | Do you think Soho is becoming 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 |
| Norwegian | bli, verta, verte | Persian | شدن |
| Portuguese | ficar | Quechua | t'ikray |
| Romanian | deveni | Russian | делаться, подобать, сделаться, статься |
| Swedish | bli, blifva, blinka, bliva, blixtra, glädja | Thai | กลับกลาย, กลาย |
| Turkish | olmak | Vietnamese | hoá, thành, trở nên, trở thành |