There are analyzed the relations between wordformative types of complex nominations of a person in the Russian and German languages. In the compared languages there is noted the homonymy, synonymy and antonymy of word-derivational types of complex words, as well as stylistic marking of items with affixes in the German language.

There are analyzed the foreign language elements in the Russian and German neologisms of the end of 1980s - 1990s, number increase of which is the reason to reconsider the classical understanding of primordial vocabulary and loanwords.