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Hindi numbers 1 to 20

Numbers are the part of Hindi where prices, ages, times, and phone numbers all live, so they pay off fast. Learn one to twenty and the round tens, and you can handle most of a shop or a kitchen conversation. What comes between the tens is a genuinely harder problem, and this page is honest about that rather than pretending there is a trick.

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One to ten

एक
ek
1
दो
do
2
तीन
teen
3
चार
chaar
4
पाँच
paa~ch
5
छह
chhah
6
सात
saat
7
आठ
aath
8
नौ
nau
9
दस
das
10

Eleven to twenty

ग्यारह
gyaarah
11
बारह
baarah
12
तेरह
terah
13
चौदह
chaudah
14
पंद्रह
pandrah
15
सोलह
solah
16
सत्रह
satrah
17
अठारह
athaarah
18
उन्नीस
unnees
19
बीस
bees
20

The round tens, and a hundred

तीस
tees
30
चालीस
chaalees
40
पचास
pachaas
50
साठ
saath
60
सत्तर
sattar
70
अस्सी
assee
80
नब्बे
nabbe
90
सौ
sau
100

Why 21 to 99 is the hard part

English gives you a rule: twenty, then twenty-one, twenty-two, forever. Hindi does not. Each number between the tens has its own shape that has to be memorised on its own, and even the written spellings differ between dictionaries. That is not a gap in your learning, it is how the language is.

The practical route: get one to twenty automatic, learn the tens, and for anything in between, say the digits or reach for English. Nobody in a family kitchen minds. You will absorb the rest by hearing prices said out loud.

The digits themselves

Devanagari has its own numerals, and you will see them on some signs and older packaging: १ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९ ०. Worth recognising, not worth drilling.

Where you'll actually use them

यह कितने का है?
yah kitne kaa hai?
How much is this?
दो चाय, please
do chaay
Two teas
मैं दस मिनट में आऊँगी
mai~ das minat me~ aaoo~gee
I'll come in ten minutes (woman speaking)
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