Lexical and grammatical properties of expressing modal value of opportunity in the Tatar and the German languages (comparative research)

The article is devoted to the comparative and contrastive analysis of lexical and grammatical means of express the meaning of ability, which is one of the main modality meanings in fiction and journalism. On the structural materials of different languages - Tatar and German - the common and the specific features of the compared languages are identified. In the comparative analysis of patterns of functional and semantic field of the opportunity in the German and the Tatar languages, as well as the functioning of their constituents have been identified the similarities and the differences in the compared languages.