- Arabic: عَلَى وَشْك (ʿalā wašk) (followed by a verbal noun in the definite form)
- 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)
- Cornish: parys dhe
- Dutch: op het punt staan (om) te
- 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’)
- Georgian: თითქმის მზად (titkmis mzad)
- German: gleich (de) (adverb modifying the verb), wollen (de) (auxiliary verb ‘to be about to’)
- Irish: ar tí
- 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)
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