COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH AN ANIMALISTIC COMPONENT IN THE UKRAINIAN AND GERMAN LANGUAGES (TRANSLATIONAL ASPECT)

In the proposed study, phraseological units with an animalistic component (PhAK) based on the Ukrainian and German languages were analyzed. It has been established that the specified language layer is widely represented in the Ukrainian and German languages and represents the linguistic picture of the world of these peoples. The role of animalisms (zoonyms) in the formation of the linguistic picture of the world is determined by the natural environment, features of socio-historical development and culture. On the basis of the conducted comparative analysis, it was established that the most used zoonyms in the group of phraseological units in the Ukrainian and German languages are animals with which a person has the most contact in everyday life – these are domestic and domestic animals, and for both cultures these animals are almost identical, which is explained similar natural conditions (climate, temperature regime, etc.), common features of household management. However, not all animals in the PhAK in the two languages are equally endowed with positive and negative traits, which we explain by the discrepancy in the levels of socio-economic development and the way of perceiving the surrounding world in the Slavic and Old Germanic worldviews. We see the practical significance of the research in the use of data in the process of practical teaching of German as a second foreign language, as well as in translation from one language to another.