Elena Ivanova Nikolova-Kiskinova, PhD student
University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/for21.42suf
Absract. Our research interest was provoked by a group of lexical units typical of the German language, containing the productive suffix -weise. These words represent an open system, the representatives of which show a high frequency of use, and nuance the sentence meaning in a distinctive way.
The present comparative study between the two unrelated languages, based on a corpus of excerpts from the original fiction and published translated texts from and into German, aims to identify and analyze possible options for precise bilateral translation of the respective lexical items.
The analysis made is extremely useful and necessary to overcome the difficulties identified in the course of teaching German as a foreign language, and contributes to the formulation of clear concepts for achieving accurate equivalent translation.
Keywords: modality; modal words; modal adverbs; translation