Macedonian son, den), including in the place of OCS suffixes -ьцъ, -ьнъ (Bulgarian -ec, -en; Serbian -ac, -an; Macedonian -ec, -en) Lack of phonetic pitch and length as in Bulgarian and Macedonian, present in Serbian Frequent stress on the final syllable in polysyllabic words, impossible in Serbian and Macedonian (Bulgarian že'na, Serbian žena) Preservation of final l, which in Serbian developed to o (Bulgarian and Macedonian bil, Serbian bio) Comparative degree of adjectives formed with the particle po as in Eastern South Slavic ubav, poubav, Serbian lep, lepši. Lack of epenthetic l, as in Eastern South Slavic zdravje/zdrave, Serbian zdravlje Use of što pronoun meaning what, as in Eastern South Slavic rather than šta as in standard Serbian (što also preserved in some Croatian dialects) and of the standard Bulgarian kakvo (often shortened to kvo). Features shared with Western South Slavic In all Torlakian dialects: ǫ gave rounded u like in Shtokavian Serbian, unlike unrounded ъ in literary Bulgarian and a in Macedonian vь- gave u in Western, v- in Eastern *čr gave cr in Western, but was preserved in Eastern Distinction between Proto-Slavic and is lost in Eastern (S.-C. njega, Bulgarian nego). Voiced consonants in final position are not subject to devoicing (Serbian grad (written and pronounced), Bulgarian/Macedonian pronounced *vs stays preserved without metathesis in Eastern (S.-C. sve, Bulgarian vse, simplified in Macedonian to se) Accusative njega as in Serbian, unlike old accusative on O in Eastern (nego''') Nominative plural of nomina on -a is on -e in Western, -i in Eastern Ja 'I, ego' in Western, (j)as in Eastern Mi 'we' in Western, nie in Eastern First person singular of verbs is -m in Western, and the old reflex of *ǫ in Eastern suffixes *-itjь (-ić) and *-atja (-ača) are common in Western, not known in Eastern In some Torlakian dialects: Distinction between the plural of masculine, feminine and neuter adjectives is preserved only in Western (S.C. beli, bele, bela), not in Eastern (beli for masc., fem. and neutr.), does not occur in Belogradchik area; in some eastern regions there is just a masculine and feminine form. The proto-Slavic *tj, *dj which gave respectively ć, đ in Serbo-Croatian, št, žd in Bulgarian and ќ, ѓ in Macedonian, is represented by the Serbian form in the west and northwest and by the hybrid č, dž in the east: Belogradchik and Tran, as well as Pirot, Gora, northern Macedonia. The