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This study discusses the Japanese verb naru and the Korean verb toeda in terms of their semantic extensions. Both naru and toeda have the basic meaning of ‘change’, but their extended meanings are quite different. Naru are semantically extended to the meanings of ‘conditional’, ‘reason’, and ‘respect’, while toeda are extended to include the Japanese verbs sareru and suru, and even to iku, which is used as a progressive aspect marker. This paper also shows that naru can be used as a copula that does not imply ‘change’ while toeda can be used to show that its argument or agent is non-volitional.