The article deals with German phraseological units selected from the Duden dictionary which include currency unit names. The internal form of currency unit names is analyzed, the features of the meaning of phraseological units in the composition of semantic groups are considered.

The article deals with the German phraseological units with the semantics of the social hierarchy recorded in the Duden dictionary. The author identifies some stylistically marked phraseological units in this thematic area. A significant number of phraseological units with the semantics of the social hierarchy with the inner form are found out.