Russians

Golica 5

71 (a) mɑ̀lko ama podɛ̀ržat gi s urɛ̀dia i s’ètn’e kat dohàd’a edìn rusnàk
Not much, but support with weapons. But then there came a Russian

72 (a) ot wɑ̀r ot ə rusìja i ednò mumč’è dvɑ̀ese i trì godìšno
from Var– from Russia: a young fellow twenty-three years old.

73 (a) i rusnɑ̀ka kɑ̀zal dud’è n’ gì nəm’ɛ̀rim n’èmə də zəminùvəme
And the Russian said, “We’re not going to leave until we find them.”

98 (a) dr’èh ne mògə də jàm i t’às rusnàkə i mumč’ètu
couldn’t eat [it].” And [then] this Russian and another boy

99 (a) s vərtul’èt dušlì ud rusìjə i tìj ku n b’àha
came with a helicopter from Russia, and if it weren’t for them –

100 (a) ne mužàə ne mòž’eli də spəs’ɛ̀t mumč’ètətə nɑ̀št’ȅ rusnàkə gi spəsìl
they wouldn’t have been able to save our boys. The Russian saved them!

102 (a) i ə i vərtul’ètət pùskə č’e si utòd’ət i hòp vərtul’ètə se zəpɑ̀lgə
Then the helicopter signalled that it was leaving, and without warning it took fire

103 (a) i izgur’àvət belòtit’ȅ i i mumč’ètu i m rusnàkə
and the pilots burned to death – both the [other] boy and the Russian.

104 (a) i nɑ̀s kɑ̀e pək ni pɑ̀z’ət ut ə drùgiətə
“But,” he said, [the Russians] will still protect us from others [like this].

Šumnatica 1

72 (a) i rusìjə t’è pumògnəə ìnək germànijə kəkò štè də nə stòri nàmi
and to Russia too, they helped [us]. Otherwise what Germany would have made of us,

87 (a) bləgudərènie če pumògnaə ànglijə i əmèrikə i rusìjə
Thanks to the help from England and America – and from Russia too –

93 (a) jà dvàese hìljədi žèrtvə dàdəme nìe bɤ̀lgərìte ə rusìjə dvàeset mil’ònə
Yes, we Bulgarians [alone] suffered 20,000 casualties, and Russia – 20 million!

Vasiljovo 1

23 (a) vɤv vojnɛ̀ta kogàto sa bìa pək ə da gònat ə sɤvèckija sajùs
in the war when they were fighting to drive out the Soviet Union.

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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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