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 pleased to know it is much simpler for feminine nouns. There are basically just two ways to form a plural, depending on how the word ends. There are of course exceptions, but they are for a future post.

Feminine nouns ending in -а or -я

To form the plural of feminine nouns ending in –а or –я, we simply replace the final letter with –и. Here are a couple of examples:

• Пица (pizza) becomes пици (pizzas)
• Книга (book) becomes книги (books)
• Диня (watermelon) becomes дини (watermelons)
• Mаруля (lettuce) becomes марули (lettuces)

Feminine nouns ending in a consonant

To pluralise a feminine noun ending in a consonant, we add –и to the end of the word. Here are some examples:

• Сутрин (morning) becomes сутрини (mornings)
• Вечер (evening) becomes вечери (evenings)
• Нощ (night) becomes нощи (nights)
• Радост (joy) becomes радости (joys)

You might have noticed that this is the same formulation for polysyllabic masculine nouns ending in a consonant.