Abstract
This paper describes one of the discrepancies between the languages that occur in non-finite clauses, namely in participial clauses and transgressives. We will concentrate mainly on transgressives because they demonstrate greater discrepancies.
The usage of Russian transgressives(gerunds) is very similar to that of English, they are typical mostly of a written language rather than spoken, whereas in Czech they are nowadays archaic in any genres and generally not used at all. This discrepancy can pose some challenge for language learners as well as for translators or machine translation systems.
We will present some examples of Russian participial/gerund clauses and the respective translations into Czech from a parallel corpus of news and belletristic texts.