Abstract. Comparison is the most important universal method for studying linguistic phenomena. One of the topical problems in the field of linguistics is the problem of comparative study of both kindred and genetically distant from each other languages. The article deals with the comparative analysis of the Arabic masdar (verbal noun) and the English gerund with the purpose of revealing the similarities and differences of the same elements in the structure of the languages of different systems.
Key words and phrases: масдар, герундий, сопоставительное изучение арабского глагола, личные формы глагола, значимый глагол, активные и пассивные формы герундия, неродственные языки, masdar (verbal noun), gerund, comparative study of the Arabic verb, finite forms of verb, main verb, active and passive forms of gerund, unrelated languages
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