This is the number ‘one’ but, because it’s Bulgarian, it’s not as simple as that. There are different ways of saying ‘one’ depending on the gender of whatever it is that you’re referring to. Everything has a gender here – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs – and there are three of them: masculine, feminine and neutral. Edno is the neutral version, edin (един) is masculine and edna (една) is feminine. There’s no equivalent of ‘a’ in Bulgarian so ‘one’ is used as an article. This is probably the most common error for English learners and even the most advanced students sometimes slip up.
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