Interlinguistic homonyms and methods of translating them into Russian (based on the German language)

this article examines the phenomenon of homonymy in modern German, as well as methods of translating interlingual homonyms. Despite a vast number of definitions, there is no precise definition of homonymy. Homonymy poses serious challenges to the study, teaching, and use of foreign languages. Many linguists disagree on whether homonymy brings more benefit than harm. Some scholars believe that homonyms are a form of polysemy, while others distinguish between the two concepts. The speech phenomenon of "interlingual homonyms" most often occurs among nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Depending on the nature of the discrepancy, interlingual homonyms are subdivided into: words verbalizing different objects and phenomena in two languages; words verbalizing identical objects and concepts but with different connotations; words with the same meaning but different stylistic connotations; words whose meanings coincide in both languages but whose equivalents when reproduced in another language may only be in certain phrases. Interlingual homonyms in different languages may belong to the same or different parts of speech. There are words with similar or identical meanings in all analyzed languages, and with meanings that do not coincide in either German or Russian.

homonymy, language, system, translation, meaning, phenomenon