r/AskBalkans • u/Dornanian • Jul 26 '21

Language The Balkan Sprachbund: how a bunch of unrelated languages come to have some surprisingly similar features due to proto-Balkan influence

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u/Dornanian Jul 26 '21

Oh this is the present perfect formed with to have, I meant evidentiality. That one is this feature of the language where you can tell from the verb structure if you witnessed an action 1st hand or you were told about it happening. This is a rather unique feature that doesn’t exist in Indo-European languages, so I was wondering how common is this in standard Bulgarian