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  • The definite article and masculine nouns in Bulgarian

    In English, we have two articles: indefinite (a, an) and definite (the). They appear before the noun they refer to, but they can be separated by adjectives, e.g. “the black book”. Bulgarian doesn’t have an indefinite article, or rather the indefinite article is implied by the lack of the definite article. Unlike in English, the…

  • Personal subject pronouns in Bulgarian

    A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun or a noun phrase. For example: Desi went to Plovdiv. She called me on arrival. There are two pronouns in the second sentence: she and me. “She” is the subject as it represents the person or thing doing the action. “Me” represents the object, or the…

  • The plural of neuter nouns in Bulgarian

    This post explains how to form the plural of regular neuter nouns in Bulgarian (I’ll cover the exceptions in another post). You might also like to check out my posts on the plural of feminine nouns or the plural of masculine nouns. I’d also advise reading my post on the gender of nouns if you…

  • The plural of feminine nouns in Bulgarian

    This post explains how the plural of feminine nouns is formed in Bulgarian. If you’d like to learn more about the gender of nouns, you should check out my post on the gender of Bulgarian nouns. For those of you who’ve already read my post on the plural of masculine nouns in Bulgarian, you’ll be…

  • The plural of masculine nouns in Bulgarian

    This post looks at how to form the plurals of masculine nouns in Bulgarian. There are broadly three ways to do this, depending on the ending of the noun in question. You might have clocked I said “broadly”. This is because in Bulgarian when a masculine noun is used after a number it takes a…

  • The gender of Bulgarian nouns

    Bulgarian is a gendered language. For anyone who’s ever studied a Romance language, such as French or Spanish, you’ll probably already understand what this means. It’s essentially a system that ascribes a gender to some of the words used (often nouns and adjectives). Bulgarian has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. To learn Bulgarian, we…