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Eremija 3

9 (GK) i òt gi mràziš tìja psètata
And why do you hate these dogs?

10 (a) nèma mnògo bəlxì ìmat
No [reason to like them]! They’ve got a lot of fleas.

12 (a) mnògo
A lot.

13 (GK) ama tè ne xòdat po xòrata
But they (fleas) don’t move onto people.

14 (a) nè tè tùka tè èno èno è pàk e tè ležì
No, but here – hey, there! There’s one lying over there!

17 (a) sàmo se tùku dṛ̀sa
He just [sits] here and scratches.

19 (a) i kadè se dṛ̀sa ako stàpiš bulxàta te nalàzi fednàga
And if you step where he’s scratched, a flea finds you right off.

Golica 3

174 (c) bɛ̀lhitȅ še pozəvərtì pòveče da stànat
The fleas would start coming out, there’d get to be more [of them].

Vŭrbina 3

23 (a) də dunìsə bɤ̀l’hi [laughter]
It will bring fleas! [laughter]

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Recommended Model for Citations

Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)
Babjak 1: 13-15. In: Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)

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