3 false friends in English and Bulgarian When Columbus reached to the Americas, he heard some familiar words in the Native people’s speech, and he was sure he understood them and they understood him too. In order not to have false confidence like Columbus when you hear people speaking Bulgarian, here are some false friends that mean different things in the two languages. “Dzhob”, which could be romanized in many different ways, but is basically pronounced as “job”, is the first one in our list and it means “a pocket”. The second one is “day”, which sounds exactly like the English “die”. Don’t be scared if someone says this to you; they are not mad at you, they just want you to give them something. “Day” or “day mi” means “give me”. The last one is “may” which sounds like the English “my”. It can mean both the month “May” or “maybe”. Another expression for “maybe” is “mozhe bi”.