come true

English

Verb

come true (third-person singular simple present comes true, present participle coming true, simple past came true, past participle come true)

1. To become real: to become true or existent.

   If you wish really hard, it just might come true.

   Many of their predictions came true, but of course, many did not.

   • 1987, Jem Finer, Shane MacGowan (lyrics and music), “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:

     So happy Christmas / I love you baby / I can see a better time / When all our dreams come true

2. (biology) To breed true; to maintain identity of salient characteristics through propagation processes.

Translations

to become real

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成真 (zh) (chéngzhēn), 實現／实现 (zh) (shíxiàn), 應驗／应验 (zh) (yìngyàn)

• Dutch: uitkomen (nl), bewaarheid worden, werkelijkheid worden
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} efektiviĝi, ^{(please verify)} realiĝi
• Finnish: toteutua (fi)
• French: se réaliser (fr)
• German: wahr werden, in Erfüllung gehen, sich realisieren (de), sich verwirklichen (de), geschehen (de), bewahrheiten (de) (reflexive)
• Greek: βγαίνω αληθινός (vgaíno alithinós)
• Hungarian: beteljesül (hu), teljesül (hu), megvalósul (hu), valóra válik (hu)
• Japanese: 叶う (ja) (かなう, kanau), 適う (ja) (かなう, kanau), 実現する (ja) (じつげんする, jitsugen-suru), 適中する (ja) (てきちゅうする, tekichū-suru)
• Ngazidja Comorian: urenɗeha, urenɗesheha
• Portuguese: realizar (pt)
• Russian: сбыва́ться (ru) impf (sbyvátʹsja), сбы́ться (ru) pf (sbýtʹsja); осуществля́ться (ru) impf (osuščestvljátʹsja), осуществи́ться (ru) pf (osuščestvítʹsja), реализова́ться (ru) impf or pf (realizovátʹsja), исполня́ться (ru) impf (ispolnjátʹsja), испо́лниться (ru) pf (ispólnitʹsja)
• Scottish Gaelic: thig gu buil
• Spanish: realizarse (es), hacerse realidad
• Swedish: bli verklighet
• Turkish: gerçekleşmek (tr)

See also

• dream come true