Learn expressions to use when someone is teasing someone or being mean
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Sydney: Expressions To Use When Someone is Making Fun or is Being Mean |
| Sydney: Hi everyone, and welcome back to BulgarianPod101.com. I'm Sydney. |
| Petar: And I'm Petar! |
| Sydney: This is Must-Know Bulgarian Slang Words and Phrases, Season 1, Lesson 15. In this lesson, you'll learn expressions to use when someone is making fun or is being mean. |
| Sydney: You can use these expressions to describe both your own behavior or the behavior of others. |
| SLANG EXPRESSIONS |
| Sydney: The expressions you will be learning in this lesson are: |
| Petar: правя си гаргара (pravya si gargara) |
| Petar: гъбаркам се (gabarkam se) |
| Petar: прецаквам (pretsakvam) |
| Petar: правя сечено (pravya secheno) |
| Sydney: Petar, what's our first expression? |
| Petar: правя си гаргара (pravya si gargara) |
| Sydney: literally meaning "to gargle." But when it's used as a slang expression, it means "to mock, to joke with someone." |
| Petar: [SLOW] правя си гаргара [NORMAL] правя си гаргара |
| Sydney: Listeners, please repeat. |
| Petar: правя си гаргара |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Sydney: Use this slang expression when you want to say that someone is making a joke of someone else. |
| Sydney: Now let's hear an example sentence. |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Сега какво, гаргара ли ще си правиш с мене? [SLOW] Сега какво, гаргара ли ще си правиш с мене? |
| Sydney: "And now what, are you going to make a joke of me?" |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Сега какво, гаргара ли ще си правиш с мене? |
| Sydney: Okay, what's the next expression? |
| Petar: гъбаркам се (gabarkam se) |
| Sydney: It doesn’t have a literal meaning. But when it's used as a slang expression, it means "to joke, to make fun of someone." |
| Petar: [SLOW] гъбаркам се [NORMAL] гъбаркам се |
| Sydney: Listeners, please repeat. |
| Petar: гъбаркам се |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Sydney: Use this slang expression when you want to say that you are telling a joke when the other person takes your words seriously. |
| Sydney: Now let's hear an example sentence. |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Не разбра ли, че се гъбаркам с теб. [SLOW] Не разбра ли, че се гъбаркам с теб. |
| Sydney: "Didn't you get it, I am joking with you." |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Не разбра ли, че се гъбаркам с теб. |
| Sydney: Okay, what's our next expression? |
| Petar: прецаквам (pretsakvam) |
| Sydney: It doesn’t have a literal meaning. But when it's used as a slang expression, it means "to deceive, to trick, to fail." |
| Petar: [SLOW] прецаквам [NORMAL] прецаквам |
| Sydney: Listeners, please repeat. |
| Petar: прецаквам |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Sydney: Use this slang expression when you want to say that another person is to lose, or to bear the consequences of your own actions. |
| Sydney: Now let's hear an example sentence. |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Прецакаха го, така му се пада. [SLOW] Прецакаха го, така му се пада. |
| Sydney: "They tricked him, he deserved it." |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Прецакаха го, така му се пада. |
| Sydney: Okay, what's the last expression? |
| Petar: правя сечено (pravya secheno) |
| Sydney: It doesn’t have a literal meaning. But when it's used as a slang expression, it means "to harm the efforts of someone." |
| Petar: [SLOW] правя сечено [NORMAL] правя сечено |
| Sydney: Listeners, please repeat. |
| Petar: правя сечено |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Sydney: Use this slang expression when you mean that you are able to impede or harm the efforts of someone else. |
| Sydney: Now let's hear an example sentence. |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Хей, човек, нарочно ли всеки път ми правиш сечено. [SLOW] Хей, човек, нарочно ли всеки път ми правиш сечено. |
| Sydney: "Hey, man, do you intentionally always do me such harm?" |
| Petar: [NORMAL] Хей, човек, нарочно ли всеки път ми правиш сечено. |
| QUIZ |
| Sydney: Okay listeners, are you ready to be quizzed on the expressions you just learned? I will describe four situations, and you will choose the right expression to use in your reply. Are you ready? |
| Sydney: Your friend didn’t understand that you were being sarcastic. |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Petar: гъбаркам се |
| Sydney: "to joke, to make fun of someone" |
| Sydney: The comedian was heckling the audience member a lot. |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Petar: правя си гаргара |
| Sydney: "to mock, to joke with someone" |
| Sydney: Someone knowingly started flirting with the girl his buddy had been buying drinks for all night. |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Petar: правя сечено |
| Sydney: "to harm the efforts of someone" |
| Sydney: She fooled her friend into thinking he lost his phone so he would get in trouble with his dad. |
| [pause - 5 sec.] |
| Petar: прецаквам |
| Sydney: "to deceive, to trick, to fail" |
Outro |
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| Sydney: There you have it; you have mastered four Bulgarian Slang Expressions! We have more vocab lists available at BulgarianPod101.com so be sure to check them out. Thanks everyone, and see you next time! |
| Petar: До скоро! |
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