FEATURES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS AS SUSTAINABLE WORD COMBINATIONS IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN AND OSSETIAN LANGUAGES

. The article discusses the features of phraseological units as stable phrases in English, Russian and Ossetian languages, pays attention to the equivalent translation. In addition, various examples of phraseological units that have pe-culiar features and represent cultural features in three languages are analyzed. A systematic description of the semantics of phraseological units of English, Russian and Ossetian languages allows us to identify similarities and differences between language units. Of particular interest in this article is the fact that, not being closely related languages, English, Russian, and Ossetian languages have similar phraseological units. As a grammatical unit, a phraseological construct can be equivalent in value not only to a concept, but also to a certain established phraseological turn. Phraseological turns, which are in synonymous connections and relationships, have unequal synonyms. The highest degree of synonymity has phraseological units, which easily replace each other in all contexts. Thus, the need arises to conduct a comparative analysis of phraseological units that reflect linguistic and semantic realities on the material of English, Russian and Ossetian languages and to trace the possibility of verbalization of the concept of “stability of phrases” in the languages being studied. The paper uses a cognitive approach to the study of linguistic units, which allows revealing the specifics of the semantic structure of the concept of “stability of phrases” in the compared languages. The specificity of the cognitive approach to research lies in the description of the studied concept as part of the national “picture of the world” of English, and Ossetian linguistic culture and by means of these languages, namely phraseology.