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'Hello' in Bulgarian

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Language

Bulgarian

Slavic Family

Left to Right Script

Romanization Enabled

Gendered Language

Bulgarian, a South Slavic language, is spoken by about 7 million native speakers, primarily in Bulgaria and among diaspora communities in Ukraine, Romania, and Turkey. It uses the Cyrillic alphabet, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire and is considered its historical contribution to Slavic languages. Known for its lack of noun cases (unique among Slavic languages), Bulgarian grammar features three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter), definite articles as suffixes, and complex verb conjugations that vary by tense, mood, and person. Its vocabulary derives from Old Church Slavonic, with loanwords from Turkish, Greek, Russian, and English due to historical influences. As Bulgaria’s official language, Bulgarian is central to its culture, literature, and national identity. Romanization is enabled for Bulgarian on this platform in addition to the original script. Romanization is the representation of a non-Latin script language in the Latin alphabet to aid pronunciation and understanding for those unfamiliar with the original script.

Flashcards

agree

BUL Verb 460

съгласявам се

sŭgljazvam se

agree

To have the same opinion or view as someone else; to concur.

happy

BUL Adjective 563

щастлив

ŝastliv

happy

Feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy.

leader

BUL Noun 538

лидер

lider

leader

A person who leads a group, organization, or country.

fact

BUL Noun 241

факт

fakt

fact

A thing that is known to be true.

Stories

Lost Among Sofia’s Yellow Cobblestones

A traveler in Sofia gets lost near the Women’s Market when his phone map proves unreliable; a bakery clerk draws him ...

Intermediate 11 sentences

Pension Day Line at the Post Office

A narrator waits in a long line at a Bulgarian post office on pension day, sharing small moments with strangers as th...

Intermediate 12 sentences

The Call That Folded Time

While cooking in his Sofia apartment, the narrator gets a surprise call from Maria, an old friend visiting from Lisbo...

Upper Intermediate 10 sentences

Rainy Afternoon at Home

A Bulgarian family spends a gray, rainy afternoon indoors. They cook pancakes, play cards, light candles when the pow...

Elementary 13 sentences

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Dimitar

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Male

22

Sofia, Bulgaria

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Ivan

Fixing a bridge model at work

Male

35

Sofia, Bulgaria

Engineer

Reliable

hiking, playing chess, gardening

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Bulgarian

Maria

Preparing Bulgarian vocabulary lessons

Female

29

Sofia, Bulgaria

Language teacher

Inspiring

baking, hiking, photography

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