Аннотация:In Russian, as well as in Greek system of parts of speech, the significant and pronominal categorical classes of words are distinguished. Our main task is to present such an ambiguous phenomenon as a pronominal verb. It has a field arrangement with a core and periphery. Verbs with deictic roots (-eto- / -αυτό-) such as этовать / αυτώνω, as well as obscene verbal lexicon are found at the core of the field. The Russian verb делать / Greek κάνω is included in the zone around the core. The nearest periphery includes the explicative verbs in the combination with descriptive predicates; explicative verbs in the combinations of analogues of descriptive predicates, and also the verb делать / κάνω as part of phraseological units. Incomplete phasic and modal verbs constitute the far periphery together with full-valued verbs, which can perform some pronominal functions in both languages.