Grammatical Categories of Verb Tense and Verb Mood in Teaching Translation from Russian into Bulgarian
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https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.18.05Keywords:
translation error, language asymmetry, verb tense, verb declension, Russian language, Bulgarian languageAbstract
This article examines errors in verb tense and verb mood that occur in translations from Russian into Bulgarian. Focusing on literary translations produced by students of Russian from various Bulgarian and international universities, the study examines how closely the use of tense and mood in the translations adheres to that in the original texts. It aims to identify the most frequent errors in these two grammatical categories. The analysis compares the form and content of the translated texts with their originals. According to the findings, verb tense errors most often involve the use of the aorist tense instead of the imperfect or pluperfect; verb mood errors typically arise from using the retelling (non-testimony) mood instead of the indicative. The latter errors arise from the formal similarity between Russian past tense verb endings and Bulgarian verbs in the retelling mood.
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