Could you make a sentence using the phrase Извинете?

Hello Christine!

When someone is going through a hard time and you want to say “I’m sorry”, you use съжалявам.

Извинете is usually used when you want to ask someone something, e.g. Извинете, накъде е гарата? (Excuse me, where is the station?). When you do something you are sorry about, like stepping on someone’s foot, you can use both съжалявам and извинете.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Viktoria

Team BulgarianPod101.com

Hello.

Is one of these two words for I’m sorry preferable when someone is going through a hard time and you want to say “I’m sorry”? Or is there a more appropriate way to communicate this sentiment?

Много благодаря!

Hi Yeh,

Thank you for the sentence. It seems like you speak well 😉. You can also say Не говоря български добре.

Sincerely,

Viktoria

Team BulgarianPod101.com

Извинете,говоря български език не добре.😭

Hi Sandra,

It is true, sometimes words have more than one meaning. “Възбуден“ means both “ excited” and “horny, turned on”. Another word for “excited” which is safer than “възбуден“ is “развълнуван” as in “Момчето беше много развълнувано, защото получи много подаръци.“ (The boy was very excited because he received many gifts.)

I hope this makes sense.

Sincerely,

Viktoria

Team BulgarianPod101.com

Hello, I now live in Bulgaria so for me it's important to learn te language. Now I'm following this course and added some list to my flashcards. In the list of 20 postive feelings you have the word възбуден (adjective) excited. Now did this word came up yesterday in a conversation with a Bulgarian friend of mine, because she used a diffrent word for excitment. She told me this възбуден is used in more ways but that this also means horny, so that you really must look in wich context you use this word.

Hi Ясминка,

this is a useful phrase you suggested. The correct way to write it in Bulgarian would be

Извинете, къде е женска тоалетна?

къде - where

Kind regards,

Tina

Team BulgarianPod101.com

Извинете, каде е женска тоалетна?

Hi Уенди,

I guess that it was simply a typo, because it is correct to say:

Извинете, говорите ли английски?

The typical replies you can get to this question are:

Не, не говоря. / No, I don't speak.

Да, кажете! / Yes, tell me. The phrase implies an invitation and can be used in a formal context, although it looks rather short :)

Best regards,

Tina

BulgarianPod101.com Team

извеинете, говорите ли английски?

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3дравейте. I'm very sad because, even when the lessons are very cheap, i'm young and i can't pay them. I was downloading the audio and then I was searching how to write the words in bulgarian and I was listening carefully to know how to pronounce them. But now I can not even download the audio. I'm pretty sad. I like so much the bulgarian language...

Anyway, благодаря ви много (thank you very much).

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Бетани, здравей,

Hi Bethany,

It is indeed most common to use "крак" for both the leg and the foot in Bulgarian. "Стъпало" indicates specifically the bottom of the foot and we use it in very rare occasions when we need to be most precise. I can hardly think of a different example except for when we say "имам болки в стъпалото" (I have a sore foot) indicating the exact place where the pain is.

Thank you for your feedback. Whenever you have a question, just leave us a note.

Best regards,

Tina

BulgarianPod101.com Team

O, I can't write Bulgarian in the name field! Съжалябам.

Бетани

Много благодаря, I was confused about the words for leg and foot too. I have a vocabulary app that had "крак" for "leg" and "foot". A different place I learned “стъпало”. Now I understand it, thanks to the comments. :smile:

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beautiful

Hi Loraine,

Basically when we need to distinguish between body parts we will use "стъпало" for the bottom of the foot and "длан" for the palm of the hand. So when someone steps on your foot, it is not on the bottom of the foot but on the top, so we use the word "крак".

It does not depend on the region you live but more on how precise you are when speaking. That is why Bulgarian people generally use "крак" and "ръка" for these cases.

:thumbsup:

Thanks for the comment!

Iva

Team BulgarianPod101.com

Hi. My Bulgarian teacher says that krak is the word for foot, and certainly here in Bulgaria where were are everyone uses that word. The other word means the bottom of the foot or sole? They do the same for arm/hand...and a word for the palm? Or does it depend where you live?!

Hi, Tony :smile:

Good question!

Indeed, if we want to be correct, we should say that "foot" in Bulgarian is "стъпало" while "leg" is "крак".

But in this specific expression people use the word "крак".

The truth is you can often hear people using "крак" instead of "стъпало" when referring to the "foot".

For example one may say: "He has big feet.", which in Bulgarian will be "Той има големи крака."

Still, when we want to be precise, like in medicine, we should use "стъпало" when referring to the "foot".

I hope this was helpful.

Thanks! :thumbsup:

Iva

Team BulgarianPod101.com