Now Playing: Lesson Audio
Get a breakdown of the dialogue and translations instantly with the Premium line-by-line Audio. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Get this lesson’s key vocab, their translations and pronunciations. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.
Unlock Lesson Notes and Transcripts for every single lesson. Sign Up for a Free Lifetime Account and Get 7 Days of Premium Access.
| Introduction |
| Becky: Welcome to 3-Minute Bulgarian Season 1, Lesson 9 - Using Adjectives. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use adjectives in simple sentences in Bulgarian. |
| Body |
| Becky: Here's the way to say 'I am strong.' in Bulgarian. |
| Petar: [Normal] Аз съм силен. |
| Becky: First is a word meaning 'I' |
| Petar: [Normal] аз [Slow] аз (az) |
| Becky: Next is the word meaning '(I) am' |
| Petar: [Normal] съм [Slow] съм(sam) |
| Becky: Last is the word meaning 'strong' |
| Petar: [Normal] силен [Slow] силен(silen) |
| Becky: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'I am strong.' |
| Petar: [Slow] Аз съм силен. [Normal] Аз съм силен. |
| Becky: Ok, now let's take a look at the way to say 'He gave a smart reply.' |
| Petar: [Normal] Той даде остроумен отговор. |
| Becky: First is a word meaning 'he' |
| Petar: [Normal] той [Slow] той (toy) |
| Becky: Next is the word meaning 'gave' |
| Petar: [Normal] даде [Slow] даде(dade) |
| Becky: Next is the word meaning 'smart' |
| Petar: [Normal] остроумен [Slow] остроумен(ostroumen) |
| Becky: Last is the word meaning 'reply' |
| Petar: [Normal] отговор [Slow] отговор(otgovor) |
| Becky: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'He gave a smart reply.' |
| Petar: [Slow] Той даде остроумен отговор. [Normal] Той даде остроумен отговор. |
| Becky: Next up is the way to say 'We are happy.' |
| Petar: [Normal] Щастливи сме. |
| Becky: First is a word meaning 'happy ' |
| Petar: [Normal] щастливи [Slow] щастливи(shtastlivi) |
| Becky: Last is the word meaning '(we) are' |
| Petar: [Normal] сме [Slow] сме(sme) |
| Becky: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'We are happy.' |
| Petar: [Slow] Щастливи сме. [Normal] Щастливи сме. |
| Becky: Finally is a way to say 'You are beautiful.' |
| Petar: [Normal] Ти си красива. |
| Becky: First is a word meaning 'you' |
| Petar: [Normal] ти [Slow] ти(ti) |
| Becky: Next is the word meaning '(you) are' |
| Petar: [Normal] си [Slow] си(si) |
| Becky: Last is the word meaning 'beautiful' |
| Petar: [Normal] красива [Slow] красива(krasiva) |
| Becky: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'You are beautiful.' |
| Petar: [Slow] Ти си красива. [Normal] Ти си красива. |
| Cultural Insight |
| Becky: Now it's time for a quick cultural insight. |
| Petar: Please remember that adjectives differ according to the gender and number of the nouns that follow them. If you want to insist on an adjective in Bulgarian, you can use the words много and наистина before the adjectives. As in много красива, which is "really beautiful" in feminine or наистина вкусно which is used in neuter and means "really delicious". |
Outro |
|---|
| Becky: And that’s all for this lesson. Don’t forget to check out the lesson notes, and we’ll see you in the next lesson! |
| Petar: До скоро! |
Comments
HideHi Listeners! Let's practice these adjectives in the comments!
Здравей, Росем,
as you probably already know, Bulgarian verbs conjugate according to person and number. For this reason, we often skip the personal pronoun, except for 3rd person singular, as you easily can get the meaning only from the verb form. You noticed quite correctly, that people might say: Гладен съм instead of Аз съм гладен.
They can also ask you Гладен ли си? instead of Ти гладен ли си? / Are you hungry?
Best regards,
Tina
BulgarianPod101.com Team
Hi
Just curious but don't you say Strong Am? like most people in my Bulgarian school say stuff like Гладен съм instead of Аз съм гладен?