Gujarati numbers 1 to 20

Gujarati counting looks familiar if you know some Hindi, which is exactly the trap. Four of these words are different enough to cause a misunderstanding about money, time or how many people are coming to dinner. Those four are marked below.

Zero to twenty

The tens, up to a hundred

Twenty is વીસ vees, already in the list above. From there the round numbers run like this.

The four that catch out Hindi speakers

બે is two, not do. નવ is nine, and a Hindi speaker expects nau. એંસી is eighty and નેવું is ninety, both different from their Hindi counterparts. If you learned Hindi first, drill these four on their own rather than trusting them to come out right under pressure.

The Gujarati digits

You will see these on price boards, house numbers and wedding invitations. They are worth half an hour of your life.

An honest warning about 21 to 99

Like Hindi, Gujarati does not build those numbers from parts. Each one is close to its own word, and there is no shortcut that survives contact with a real conversation. Learn one to twenty and the tens properly first. The middle fills in later, slowly, and that is normal.