Example sentences for: mertvago

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

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

  • Mertvago could have followed the modern trend and used the key word or thematic arrangements.

  • The statement that Generally speaking, the Russians make greater use of proverbs than the Americans or the British is doubtless true, with the consequence that the careful attention given Mertvago's compilation is quite justified.

  • 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].


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