The article is devoted to studying the national value parameter in paremiological units with the key lexemes “die Witwe” and “вдова” (“a widow”) in the concept of the comparative ethnolinguistic analysis. In the work, the comparative ethnolinguistic description of paremias is based on the authors’ method of cultural contrast that allows determining the ethnocultural identity based on identifying general and specific possibilities of expressing national cultures in the phraseological picture of the world through the material of the German and Russian languages.