RESEARCH ON THE SEMANTICS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH

This article explores the translation of English phraseological units, paying attention to their specific characteristics. Phraseological units are inseparable language that denote a concept and have modified meaning. Their important characteristics include invariance meaning, structure grammar, as well imagery. Translating can be difficult due complex semantic structure, figurative nature, national-cultural specificity meanings. divided into equivalent non-equivalent ones, with meanings latter depending on context. To translate full or partial equivalents analogues used. The most effective way is use fully corresponds original unit in lexical composition, grammatical imagery both languages. In translation, there contain some discrepancies same meaning style but differ from original. Many non-equivalent, so they translated Ukrainian using calques descriptions. Descriptive allows conveying general succinctly clearly possible, does not preserve