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The theory and the practice of teaching foreign languages often pose some questions concerning the grammatical status of the lexeme. One of the problems is concerned the so-called pronominal (passé-partout) words which perform such functions as deictic, referential, quantitative, etc. In the frame of every nominal part of speech, we can single out nominal and pronominal categorical classes of words. The system of the opposition of the kind permits to suppose that verbs also have nominal and pronominal lexemes which play appropriate roles, the hypothesis being confirmed by the material based on different languages.