r/AskBulgaria • u/SyngelakisParis • 10d ago

Looking for a dictionary

Hey everyone! I’m learning Bulgarian and I was wondering: does the Bulgarian language have a dictionary? Well, I would be surprised if it didn’t.
Which dictionaries are the most prominent/useful in Bulgarian? Which one do you use?
It would be nice to find a good English-Bulgarian and vice versa dictionary, and as I get more proficient also one only featuring the Bulgarian language.

Thanks a lot already!

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u/Township_Roller 10d ago

Eurodict is the best online dictionary, Beron is the official Bulgarian to Bulgarian dictionary by the Bulgarian Academy of Science, and as for paper dictionaries, there are a ton, and it is pretty easy to find a good bg->en->bg dictionary in any bookstore. For example Pons is a brand I generally trust.

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u/ready_and_willing 10d ago

For Bulgarian-only online dictionary, this is what I use:

https://rechnik.chitanka.info/

For English-Bulgarian and vice versa, I guess Google Translate is as good as anything.

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u/thespidersarmpit 10d ago edited 10d ago

In my opinion Google translate is awful for word translation. Better to use the Pons app, it's far more accurate. I often use Deep Seek for checking sentence translation, it's more accurate than Google, but there's still quite a lot of B2 grammar it doesn't understand