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Types of Questions in Bulgarian – Видове въпроси

здрасти, Bulgarian Learners! 😃

➡ In today's lesson you will learn how to ask questions in the Bulgarian language.

Happy learning!

How many types of questions in Bulgarian?

In Bulgarian there are two main types of questions: Yes/No questions and questions with a question word.

How do we form yes/no questions in Bulgarian?

• We form Yes/No questions using the particle ЛИ. In positive Yes/No questions with the verb “to be” in present simple tense we place ЛИ before the verb “to be”.

• In other types of Yes/No questions we usually place ЛИ after the verb.

Can we skip the personal pronouns?

In most cases we can skip the personal pronouns without changing the word order.

How do we use question words?

• When we use question words (кой, какъв, как, защо, etc.) we usually do not use ЛИ to form questions.

Bulgarian	Translation
кой	who, which
какъв	what kind of; what
къде	where
кога	when
как	how
колко	how much; how many
защо	why

• Some question words in Bulgarian have gender and number.

	Bulgarian	Translation
m.	кой	who / which
f.	коя
n.	кое
pl.	кои
m.	какъв	what kind of / what
f.	каква
n.	какво
pl.	какви

• When we use question words to form questions we place the question words before the verb.

Question word + Verb ?

• When question words are used with prepositions, the sentence starts with the preposition followed by the question word.

Intonation

We can also ask questions using narrative sentences with a rising intonation.

Sources

• https://caritas.bg/cms/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A1-English.pdf?x10535