The fastest words to learn are the ones you see most. This deck lists the 60 most common Bulgarian words, each with a clear English meaning and a real example sentence. Study them below, or download the deck for Anki or Quizlet.
The best Bulgarian flashcards to learn first are the words you meet most often. This free deck pairs the 60 most common Bulgarian words, like къща, дом, вода, with a plain English meaning and a real example sentence for each. Download it as a CSV for Anki or Quizlet, or learn the words in context by reading.
CSV columns are word, translation, example (with a header row). Ready to import into Anki, Quizlet, or any spaced-repetition app.
60 most common Bulgarian words · Updated July 2026
| Bulgarian | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| къща | house | Това е моята къща. |
| дом | home | Моят дом е малък. |
| вода | water | Искам чаша вода. |
| хляб | bread | Купувам пресен хляб. |
| книга | book | Чета интересна книга. |
| маса | table | Масата е в кухнята. |
| стол | chair | Столът е до масата. |
| врата | door | Вратата е отворена. |
| прозорец | window | Отварям прозореца. |
| кола | car | Той има нова кола. |
| град | city, town | София е голям град. |
| улица | street | Живея на тази улица. |
| ден | day | Днес е хубав ден. |
| нощ | night | Лека нощ! |
| година | year | Тази година пътувам много. |
| време | time; weather | Времето днес е хубаво. |
| човек | person, human being | Той е добър човек. |
| жена | woman; wife | Тя е моята жена. |
| мъж | man; husband | Мъжът работи в офиса. |
| дете | child | Детето играе в парка. |
| приятел | friend | Той е моят най-добър приятел. |
| семейство | family | Обичам моето семейство. |
| работа | work, job | Имам много работа днес. |
| училище | school | Децата отиват на училище. |
| храна | food | Храната тук е вкусна. |
| пари | money | Нямам достатъчно пари. |
| магазин | shop, store | Отивам до магазина. |
| съм | to be | Аз съм студент. |
| имам | to have | Имам две сестри. |
| правя | to do, make | Какво правиш сега? |
| искам | to want | Искам кафе, моля. |
| мога | can, to be able to | Мога да плувам. |
| отивам | to go | Отивам на работа. |
| идвам | to come | Идвам веднага. |
| говоря | to speak, talk | Говоря малко български. |
| виждам | to see | Виждам къщата оттук. |
| знам | to know | Не знам отговора. |
| обичам | to love; to like | Обичам да чета. |
| ям | to eat | Ям плодове всеки ден. |
| пия | to drink | Пия чай всяка сутрин. |
| живея | to live | Живея в София. |
| работя | to work | Работя в болница. |
| купувам | to buy | Купувам плодове от пазара. |
| чета | to read | Чета вестник всеки ден. |
| добър | good | Той е добър учител. |
| лош | bad | Времето е лошо днес. |
| голям | big, large | Това е голям проблем. |
| малък | small | Имам малко куче. |
| нов | new | Купих нов телефон. |
| стар | old | Това е стара къща. |
| хубав | nice, beautiful | Филмът беше много хубав. |
| красив | beautiful, handsome | Тя има красива усмивка. |
| лесен | easy | Тестът беше лесен. |
| труден | difficult, hard | Този въпрос е труден. |
| и | and | Аз и ти сме приятели. |
| или | or | Искаш ли чай или кафе? |
| но | but | Искам да дойда, но нямам време. |
| да | yes; to (before a verb) | Да, разбирам. |
| не | no; not | Не, благодаря. |
| с | with | Ходя на кино с приятели. |
Flashcards fix words in memory; reading teaches you to use them. Lingo7 lets you read real books in Bulgarian with sentence-aligned translation and native-narrated audio, and save any word to review later. Free to start.
The deck is built from high-frequency words, the ones that make up most of everyday Bulgarian. Learning them first gives you the biggest return per card, because you will meet them again and again the moment you start reading or listening.
Flashcards work best with spaced repetition: review a card, and if you knew it, wait longer before seeing it again. Anki and Quizlet both do this automatically. Download the CSV, import it, and review a few minutes a day. Keep the example sentence on the card so you learn how the word actually behaves, not just its dictionary gloss.
One honest limit: flashcards build recognition, but you learn to use a word by meeting it in real context. Pair this deck with reading. When a word you drilled shows up in a story, it stops being a flashcard and becomes part of the language. That pairing is what reading in Lingo7 is built for.
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Start with the most frequent words. A few thousand high-frequency Bulgarian words cover the majority of everyday text, so each of those cards pays off far more than a rare one. This deck gives you the top 60 to begin with, each with a meaning and an example sentence, so you learn the word in context rather than in isolation. When a card sticks, meet the word again in a real book to lock it in.
Click Download CSV to save the deck, then in Anki choose File, Import and select the file. Map the first column to the front (the Bulgarian word) and the second to the back (the meaning); the third column holds an example sentence you can add to the back too. The first row is a header, so tell Anki to ignore it or delete that one card. For Quizlet, use Copy for Quizlet and paste into the import box with Tab between term and definition.
Flashcards are excellent for building recognition and drilling the first few thousand words, but on their own they teach words out of context. You learn to use Bulgarian, not just recognize it, by reading and hearing the words in real sentences. The efficient combination is flashcards for raw vocabulary plus reading for context, collocation and grammar. That is exactly what Lingo7 is built around.
Roughly 2,000 to 3,000 common words cover most everyday Bulgarian text, and around 5,000 gets you comfortably through many novels. You do not need all of them before you start: with sentence-aligned translation you can begin reading real Bulgarian at a couple of thousand words and pick up the rest from context. This deck is a fast way to front-load the most useful 60.