Language/Bulgarian/Grammar/GENDER-AND-NUMBER-OF-ADJECTIVES-–-Род-и-число-на-прилагателните
Род и число на прилагателните
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➡ In today's lesson you will learn about the gender and number agreement of adjectives in the Bulgarian language.
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1. Adjectives in Bulgarian change according to the gender and number of the noun they define. We call it agreement of nouns and adjectives.
2. Adjectives in Bulgarian have 3 forms – masculine, feminine and neuter. The typical ending for masculine adjectives is a consonant, for feminine adjectives -A, and for neuter adjectives -O. We form feminine and neuter adjectives by adding -A and –О to the masculine form.
| Singular | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| m. | -consonant | хубав ресторант | nice restaurant |
| f. | +а | хубава къща | nice house |
| n. | +о | хубаво село | nice village |
3. There is a group of masculine adjectives ending in -СКИ: български, детски, медицински.
4. We form the plural of the adjectives by adding -И to the masculine singular form.
| Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| m. | +и | хубави ресторанти | nice restaurants |
| f. | хубави къщи | nice houses | |
| n. | хубави села | nice villages | |
5. For most of the adjectives ending in -ЕН (with the stress not falling on E in the masculine form), we drop -Е- in the ending of the feminine, neuter and plural forms. If the stress falls on E, we don’t drop it. For most of the adjectives ending in –ЪР and -ЪК in the masculine form, we drop -Ъ- in the ending of the feminine, neuter and plural forms.
| -ен | -ър | -ък | |
|---|---|---|---|
| m. | умен | добър | малък |
| f. | умна | добра | малка |
| n. | умно | добро | малко |
| pl. | умни | добри | малки |
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