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The semantic structure of the word ‘man’ in english and ukrainian languages

Some meanings of word ‘man’ can be understood only in linguistic utterances, and during translating into Ukrainian we have to be carefully with selection proper corresponding lexical unit. For example, the meaning in sentence “What can a man do?” has to be translated into Ukrainian omitting the subject. Almost in such way we have to examine the meaning ‘a fulfilling person’, which can be simply translated as ‘людина, що відповідає вимогам’.

The special interest in this course paper I had examining the slang meanings of word ‘man’, which due to its frequent use occur in different utterances specific for some social groups.

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