Good day/afternoon

Let's continue the theme of greeting people with another phrase that means "Good day" or "Good afternoon."

The first word in the phrase is:

dobur

It means good, nice. You might recognize that the word means the same and looks similar to the word from yesterday. That's because dobur is the same word as dobro.

This is a good time to introduce an important component of the Bulgarian language. Every noun in the Bulgarian language is assigned a gender: masculine, feminine, or neutral. The gender of the noun never changes.

Adjectives that describe a noun do change, though, depending on the gender of the noun they are describing. If we look at yesterday, the noun in the phrase was utro, which is a neutral noun. Therefore, the adjective describing it also needed to take the neutral case, dobro.

Well, today the noun in the phrase is den, which is a masculine noun. Therefore, the adjective describing it needs to take the masculine case, which is dobur.

Got it?

I'm sure that we'll be repeating this a lot, so don't worry if it doesn't all make sense now. It will.

I already introduced the second word in the phrase:

den

Den means day. So, now you know how to say good day in Bulgarian: dobur den.

Hear it below (from a real Bulgarian, not a practicing one):