Example sentences for: mertvago

How can you use “mertvago” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To sum up, this is a comparative dictionary with a number of useful features, as if Mertvago wanted to fill in gaps existing in other dictionaries.

  • Mertvago also deals with the difference between a proverb and a saying.

  • The Russian text (in Cyrillic) is followed by a literal translation in English, unless there is a clear English equivalent, by which Mertvago means both lexical and conceptual correspondence.

  • As a once occasional translator of Russian, I am overpowered by an itch to comment on Emanuel Strauss”s review of Peter Mertvago's Comparative Russian-English Dictionary of Russian Proverbs & Sayings [XXIII,3].

  • A couple of observations in the review, whether Strauss's or Mertvago's, strike me as dubious at best and the translation of an example as misleading.


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