about to

English

(idiomatic, only with bare infinitive) Indicates something that will happen very soon; indicates that something is imminent.
He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump.

indicating imminence

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

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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