PECULIARITIES OF TRANSLATING FRENCH PHRASEOLOGY ABOUT DECEPTION INTO UKRAINIAN

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of translating French phraseological units related to deception into Ukrainian. The study focuses on French phraseological units denoting lies and deception and their interrelation with Ukrainian equivalents, as well as their semantics. The study explores the methods used to translate French phraseological units denoting deception into Ukrainian. It is recognised that translating phraseological units is one of the most challenging tasks for translators, as translating fixed expressions from one language to another requires an advanced knowledge of both languages, cultural awareness, and often creativity. There is no universal approach to translating idiomatic expressions; each one presents its own challenges.Analysis of the factual material reveals that Ukrainian has a much larger number of phraseological units related to deception than French. However, only a small proportion of French phraseological units about deception have equivalents or analogues among Ukrainian ones. The phraseological translation method involving equivalents or analogues is applied to phraseological units containing common interlingual elements, particularly those of ancient, biblical, mythological or historical origin. This is because the structure and meaning of such units are usually the same in both languages. There are hardly any Ukrainian equivalents of phraseological units about deception that reflect the French national worldview. Using an analogue for translation preserves the meaning, stylistic colouring and evaluation of the phrase in the target language.A partial analogue is more common. According to the examples reviewed, among non-phraseological translation methods, lexical and descriptive translation are the most common, while calquing and commentary translation are the least common. Inevitably, descriptive translation involves the loss of figurativeness, expressiveness, and the cultural and national peculiarities of phrase components. The importance of studying the relationship between phraseological units in Ukrainian and in other languages in order to compile phraseological translation dictionaries is highlighted.