Bulgarian to Maori: count the group and decide whether the reader is included
Ние does not identify every member of we
Bulgarian ние can refer to the writer and reader together or to a group that excludes the reader. Māori distinguishes those meanings explicitly. Kupu’s pronoun chart gives tāua for two people including the listener and māua for two excluding the listener. A Bulgarian sentence about a plan between two people therefore needs a decision that its source pronoun alone does not supply.
This is particularly useful in invitations. A Bulgarian speaker saying we are going may be inviting the reader to join, or reporting that the speaker and another person already have a plan. Choosing the wrong Māori inclusive or exclusive form can change the invitation itself, even when the destination and action are translated correctly. Establish the group before settling the pronoun.
Two people are not the same pronoun category as a larger group
Māori also distinguishes dual from larger plural reference. The chart contrasts kōrua for two addressees with koutou for three or more. Bulgarian вие does not by itself make that number distinction, and polite Вие may even address one individual. A translated Bulgarian group message therefore needs an actual headcount, not a mechanical conversion of grammatical plural.
A Bulgarian note to a couple and a note to a family group can look alike at the pronoun level. In Māori their addressee forms can differ. If the Bulgarian message changes from addressing the couple to discussing them with someone else, the person category changes too; the target must not retain a second-person form just because the same two people remain involved.
My depends on the relationship with the possession
Bulgarian possessive forms agree with the possessed expression and identify its owner. Māori adds an A/O category distinction. Kupu lists tāku and tōku for first-person possession, with the choice dependent on the relationship to the thing possessed. A Bulgarian мой phrase therefore does not settle the corresponding Māori possessive vowel.
The teaching material places such things as transport and shelter in its O category, while giving food and various controlled objects among A-category examples. These categories are not a direct translation of Bulgarian noun gender. Choosing the target form from the Bulgarian noun’s masculine or feminine ending would confuse two different systems: source agreement and target possessive relationship.
The use of an object can affect its possessive classification
Kupu illustrates an important limitation on memorized noun lists with a horse: its role as a pet or as transport can affect the A/O choice. For a Bulgarian message about someone’s horse, knowing the dictionary noun is therefore not necessarily enough. The intended relationship or use can matter to the target possessive construction.
This is the same broader issue encountered with group pronouns: Māori may require an explicit distinction that Bulgarian leaves to context. Before translating a Bulgarian travel plan, establish who belongs to the group, whether it contains exactly two people, and how the speaker relates to any named possession. Those are concrete facts about the intended message, not stylistic flourishes that can be filled in arbitrarily after the vocabulary is translated.
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