Darina said:

Your sentence is grammatically correct. What you are missing here is the evolution of the language so to say . If the present and the aorist form are identical we tend to use imperfect instead. That's all!



In the sentence Баща ти те търси вчера the word вчера helps you understand that it is in the past but not in Няма обаче война или кръвопролитие people.



Hi Psi-Lord!Your sentence is grammatically correct. What you are missing here is the evolution of the language so to sayIn the sentence Баща ти те търси вчера the word вчера helps you understand that it is in the past but not in Click to expand...

The above statement is wrong, or at least it's not entirely true. Let's take for example the verb "купя". I think Darina will agree with me that the sentence "Баща ти купи един хляб" ("Your father bought a loaf of bread) can only mean a past action, even though "купи" is both the present (аз да купя, ти да купиш, той да купи) and the aorist form (аз купих, ти/той купи) of the verb "купя". There are hundreds of verbs like купя, mostly verbs from the second conjugation (намеря, изработя, поговоря, обадя, поканя, повторя, науча...) and some from the first (отида, вляза) and third conjugations (поръчам, попитам, поискам, иненадам). So the following sentences:"Баща ти намери..." - "Your father found...""Баща ти се обади." - "Your father called.""Баща ти отиде..." - "Your father went...""Баща ти влезе..." - "You father entered...""Баща ти поръча..." - "You father ordered...""Баща ти попита..." - "You father asked...""Баща ти изненада..." - "You father surprised..."can only mean a past action, despite the fact that the the same forms are used in the present tense:"Когато баща ти се обади, ще го питам кога ще се върне" - "When you father calls, I'll ask him when he'll be back" vs "Когато баща ти се обади, го питах кога ще се върне" - "When your father called, I asked him when he'd be back."The use of the imperfect in the above sentences is either impossible or it changes the whole meaning of the sentence. "Баща ти намереше..." are "Баща ти се обадеше..." are both wrong, whereas "(Винаги) Kогато баща ти се обадеше, го питах кога ще се прибере" means "Every time you father called, I asked him when he'd be back.").The sentence "Баща ти те търси" can be both present and past, because the verb "търся" is different from the ones listed above. "търся" is an imperfective verb (глагол от несвършен вид), while the other verbs are perfective (глаголи от свършен вид). Imperfective verbs can be used independently in the present tense ("аз търся" is fine) but perfective normally cannot ("Аз купя" is wrong, it shoud be "аз да купя" or "ако аз купя", etc). That's why the above sentences are only past and "баща ти те търси" can be both past and present.I think what Darina wanted to say is that "if the present and the aorist form of anare identicaltend to use the imperfect instead." and I stress the words "some Bulgarians" because this is not standard usage, it's a dialect, and not all Bulgarians do that. In fact, Bulgarians from different regions of the country do different things. In this case other Bulgarians would distinguish the two tenses by stressing different syllables of the verb:"Баща ти те трси" with stress on the first syllable means present tense and"Баща ти те търс" with stress on the last syllable means past tense.Similarly: "Баща ти глда..." means "Your father is watching""Баща ти глед" - "Your father watched""Баща тиска" - "Your father wants""Баща ти иск" - "Your father wanted".But this is not standard Bulgarian, it's a dialect. I can't say which group of Bulgarians is the bigger one - the ones using the imperfect insead or the ones using different stress patterns, but in both cases this is not standard Bulgarian. So Darina's statement about the evolution of the Bulgarian language is also wrong. That's not the evolution of the whole language, it's the evolution of a particular dialect of the language. It's true that there is a considerable amount of Bulgarians who speak like that, but it's also true that there is a considerable amount of Bulgarians who don't speak like that.In standard Bulgarian the sentence "Бащи ти те търси" can be both present and past, the distinction is made from the context and it's not necessary to use the adverb "Вчера". The sentences "Баща ти те търсеше" and "Баща ти те търси" when the latter refers to the past, mean different things. It is only in some dialects that the first one replaces the second one and no distinction is made between the two.