The Bulgarianist

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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…