The Bulgarianist

Tag: gender

  • 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…