Month: February 2016

Early morning. Ранно утро. The coffee is ready. Кафето е готово. Gary takes it with milk. Гари го пие с мляко. This provokes a conjugation of a verb for milking a cow. So it goes:
Aз млекя
Ти млекеш…
I interrupt this flow by asking “what do you mean?” (Какво имаш предвид?)
G.: Well, this should be the verb for milking a cow.
D: OK. It make sense… Има логика… But the actual verb is „ДОЯ“, with a stress on “я“.
G.: Ooooh, Do Ya? (Do I?) Ya, I do.

For now on the verb „ДОЯ“ will never be the same for me:)

Of course, we tried to learn the language via osmosis by just putting our heads together and waiting for the language flow to start. Sometimes it works, sometimes — doesn’t; other, not language-related thoughts begin flowing in both directions. This is “scary” (a quote by the other party). Anyway, the morning brought a couple of new hybrids:

Аз осмозя
Ти осмозиш
Той/тя/то осмози

Ние осмозим
Вие осмозите
Те осмозят

This is a perfect following of the rule to conjugate any verb from the second group (with an ending with “И”-for the third person singular, e.g. говоря, уча etc.).

After осмозя there was nothing that could stop Gary to continue contributing to language enrichment. The noun “collision” was turned into a Bulgarian verb perfectly by following the rule for the third group (with an ending with “A”-for the third person singular, e.g. закусвам, пазарувам etc.). Not only that, the two aspects of the verb were developed – imperfective колижвам and perfective колижа…, where the perfective verb follows the First group conjugation (with an ending with “E”-for the third person singular, e.g. чета, пиша, etc.)
And here we go:

Imperfective
Аз колижвам
Ти колижваш
Той/тя/то колижва

Ние колижваме
Вие колижвате
Те колижват
Imperative: Колижвай! Колижвайте!

Perfective
Аз ще колижа
Ти ще колижеш
Той/тя/то ще колиже

Ние ще колижем
Вие ще колижете
Те ще колижат

Imperative: Колижù! Колижèте!

The third verb that was twisted was related to making verbs:
Аз върбя
Ти върбиш
Той/тя/то върби

Ние върбим
Вие върбите
Те върбят

So, I guess, we can take this as an illustration of an artificial language game (as we have seen in the studies of language and culture)… Isn’t Bulgarian easy?

February 7.
Homework for the Intermediate level is to create new sentences with the verbs from the dialogue.
And here we go…
Таня може да пипне Камен. Камен може да пипне Таня. Но Таня не може да пипне кебапчетата на Веселин…

Early morning. The teacher hears voice in the bed. Ранно утро. Чувам глас в леглото: „тази-онази…нищо-нещо…“ The teacher starts giggling… Напушва ме смях… изпускам пàрата. „Гласът“ – the husband-student: “You should have told me I will become like this… Your students should have an injection…