Bulgarian translation services

Bulgarian translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with the written article check included as part of the review rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Bulgarian linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking among other things that every masculine noun carries the article its role in the sentence requires, including in lines shortened for timing.

Yes — Bulgarian translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout. The written check covers the voice-over script as well as the subtitles, because the script is where the recorded text is fixed.

Masculine singular nouns have two forms of the definite article. The full form, -ът or -ят, marks the subject and the noun after verbs such as to be; the short form, -а or -я, is used everywhere else. The Institute for Bulgarian Language's test is simple: if the noun can be replaced by той, it takes the full form.

Because it only exists in writing. Spoken Bulgarian does not distinguish the two forms, so a native speaker listening to a recording hears nothing wrong. In subtitles and on-screen text a wrong ending is visible, and Bulgarian readers treat the rule as a sign of a carefully written text.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

It can. Shortening a line to meet reading speed often swaps which noun is the subject, and the articles must follow. That is why the check runs on the final subtitle file, after the last timing edit, rather than on the translated draft.

Standard Bulgarian, to the Official Orthographic Dictionary of 2012, which is also the reference Netflix's Bulgarian timed-text style guide names. It covers commercial, corporate and broadcast work for audiences in Bulgaria and beyond.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.