Abstract

The article is devoted to the main principles of Ukrainian proverbsbuilding. Based on proverbs definitions analysis in Ukrainian, Russian andBelarusian dictionaries and references their main features are described. Theseinclude: synchronically a proverb is perceived as a fixed phrase, it is expressedas a sentence (simple or complex), it is a statement that summarizes thenational experience and has figurative, aphoristic character. Being fixedphrases, proverbs, unlike other sentences, are not formed by a speaker butreproduced by him. It defines the specificity of proverbs modality: their contentis not the product of the speaker’s thinking, he only reproduces certain truththat does not have its particular subject-creator.

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