The article is devoted to the analysis of the construction ot slova
sovsem, actively functioning in the modern Russian language as a
stable combination. Special attention in the work is paid to the terms used: «construction», «intensifier» and «intensification». Important for this study is the history of the use ot slova sovsem, as well as the key component of the construction – the adverb sovsem. The construction ot slova sovsem performs the role of an intensifier in a sentence, which «intensifies» the semantics of this or that unit in this or that sentence. Free combinations with the wordform ot slova led to the spread of such constructions (hilarious ot slova horrible; went ot slova ran), so the article also separately analyzes the stable model <X from the word Y>. The reason for the appearance of this model can be considered a general language tendency to intensification: I do not know her, ot slova sovsem; I do not want to lose ot slova «sovsem»; it
requires no investment ot slova sovsem. The results of the analysis are presented on the material of contexts from personal blogs of Internet users.