| Subject | English | Russian |
| Makarov. | be a widower | вдоветь (о мужчине) |
| Gruzovik, obs. | be a widower | вдовствовать |
| Makarov. | be a widower | вдовствовать (о мужчине) |
| Gruzovik | be a widower | вдоветь |
| gen. | I fancy that he is a widower | у меня такое впечатление, что он вдовец (that he is out, that I have seen him before, that it is wrong, that she is forty, etc., и т.д.) |
| gen. | I fancy that he is a widower | мне кажется, что он вдовец (that he is out, that I have seen him before, that it is wrong, that she is forty, etc., и т.д.) |