- Arabic: عَلَى وَشْك (ʿalā wašk) (followed by a verbal noun in the definite form)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (for both forms, particle 了 (le) is used after verb) 就要 (zh) (jiùyào), 快要 (zh) (kuàiyào), 剛要, 刚要 (gāngyào)
- Min Dong: 欲 (buóh)
- Min Nan: 欲 (zh-min-nan) (beh)
- Cornish: parys dhe
- Dutch: op het punt staan (om) te
- Esperanto: (expressed by the future participle of the verb)
- Finnish: fifth infinitive of the verb (different grammatical structure; see usex in tekemäisillään)
- French: sur le point de (fr), aller (fr) (auxiliary verb ‘to be about to’)
- Galician: a punto de
- Georgian: თითქმის მზად (titkmis mzad)
- German: gleich (de) (adverb modifying the verb), wollen (de) (auxiliary verb ‘to be about to’)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: μέλλω (méllō)
- Irish: ar tí
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- Italian: in procinto di (it) (followed by infinitive), sul punto di (it) (+ inf.), stare per (it) (+ inf.)
- Japanese: (after verbs in the basic form) ... ところ (ja) (...tokoro), まさに...しようとしている (masa ni ... shiyō to shite iru)
- Khmer: ស្ទើរតែ (stəə tae)
- Korean: (으)려고 하다 ((eu)ryeogo hada), (please verify) 막...하려고 하다 (Mak...haryeogo hada)
- Kurdish: hema hema (ku), hema bêje (ku)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: (expressed by the future participle of the verb)
- Maori: whano, hono
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: no limiar de, prestes a, a ponto de (pt)
- Russian: собира́ться (ru) (sobirátʹsja)
- Scottish Gaelic: an impis
- Spanish: a punto de (es)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: ཁད (khad), ཁད་པ (khad pa), ཆོག་ཆོག (chog chog), verb + གྲབས (verb + grabs)
- Vietnamese: sắp (vi)
- Welsh: ar (cy), ar fin
- Yiddish: האַלטן בײַם (haltn baym)
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