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Numbers
Cardinals
English

Hindi

Transliteration

Zero (0)

()

unya/siphar

One (1)

()

Two (2)

()

do

Three (3)

()

teen

Four (4)
Five (5)
Six (6)
Seven (7)
Eight (8)
Nine (9)
Ten (10)

()

()
()

()
()
()

()

()

Eleven (11)
Twelve (12)
Thirteen (13)

()

()

char
pnch
cha
sat
h
nau
dus
egyrah
brah
trah

Fourteen (14) ()

chaudah

Fifteen (15)

pandrah

Sixteen (16)

()

()

Seventeen (17) ()
Eighteen (18)

solah
satrah

() ahrah

Nineteen (19) () unnis

Twenty (20)

()

bees

Hindi cardinal numbers up to 100 have no specific standardization. Up to 20, the numbers are unique. After that
each tenth number (such as 30, 40 etc) is unique. The rest of the numbers take the form of prefix of incremental
digit and the base of preceding tenth number. However these prefixes and bases vary slightly and random manner.
Although the pattern isn't regular, don't worry too much. They're just slightly different and with some practice you'd
soon get the hang of it. Here are the numbers from 21 to 100. Try to follow them and find any similar pattern.
English

Hindi

Transliteration

Twenty one (21)

()

ikks

Twenty two (22)

Twenty three (23)
Twenty four (24)
Twenty five (25)
Twenty six (26)
Twenty seven (27)
Twenty eight (28)
Twenty nine (29)
Thirty (30)

()

()

()

()
()

bs
ts
chaubs
pachchs
chabbs

()

satts

()

unats

() ahs
()

ts

Thirty one (31)

()

ikats

Thirty two (32)

()

batts

Thirty three (33)

Thirty four (34)
Thirty five (35)
Thirty six (36)
Thirty seven (37)
Thirty eight (38)
Thirty nine (39)
Forty (40)
Forty one (41)
Forty two (42)
Forty three (43)
Forty four (44)
Forty five (45)
Forty six (46)
Forty seven (47)
Forty eight (48)
Forty nine (49)
Fifty (50)
Fifty one (51)
Fifty two (52)
Fifty three (53)
Fifty four (54)
Fifty five (55)
Fifty six (56)
Fifty seven (57)
Fifty eight (58)
Fifty nine (59)
Sixty (60)
Sixty one (61)
Sixty two (62)

()

()
()
()

()

taits
chauts
paits
chatts
saits

()

aats

()

chls

()

bayls

() unchls
() ikatls
()

taitls

() chautls
() paitls
() chiyls

() saitls
() aatls
()
()

()
()

()
()

()
()

unacs
pacs
ikyban
bvan
tirpan
chauban
pachapan
chappan

()

sattvan

()

unasah

() ahvan
()

()
()

sh
ikasah
bsah

Sixty three (63)

()

tirasah

Sixty four (64)

()

chausah

Sixty five (65)

()

paisah

Sixty six (66)

()

chiysah

Sixty seven (67)

Sixty eight (68)
Sixty nine (69)
Seventy (70)
Seventy one (71)
Seventy two (72)
Seventy three (73)
Seventy four (74)
Seventy five (75)
Seventy six (76)
Seventy seven (77)
Seventy eight (78)
Seventy nine (79)
Eighty (80)
Eighty one (81)
Eighty two (82)
Eighty three (83)
Eighty four (84)
Eighty five (85)
Eighty six (86)
Eighty seven (87)
Eighty eight (88)
Eighty nine (89)
Ninety (90)
Ninety one (91)
Ninety two (92)
Ninety three (93)
Ninety four (94)
Ninety five (95)

()
()

()
()

()
()

()
()

()
()

()
()
()
()

()
()

()

saasah
aasah
unahattar
sattar
ikahattar
bahattar
tihattar
chauhattar
pachahattar
chihattar
satahattar
ahahattar
uns
ass
ikys
bays
tirs

()

chaurs

()

chiys

() pachs

()
()
()

()

()

()

()

()

()

sats
ahs
navs
nabb
ikynab
bnav
tirnav
chaurnav
pachnav

Ninety six (96)

()

chiynav

Ninety seven (97)

()

sattnav

Ninety eight (98)

() ahnav

Ninety nine (99)

() ninynav

(One) hundred (100) () () (ka) sau

Once you have got through the numbers 1-100 the rest of the numbers are regular. For example if we need seven
hundred sixty seven it will be (sta sau saasaha).
Another point to be noted in Hindi in case of cardinal numbers is that Hindi (and all other Indic languages) often use
quantities like lakh and crore which are less common in English speaking countries. The opposite is true for
quantities like million, billion (We are talking about the US billion which is 1 followed by 9 zeros, not the UK billion
which is 1 followed by 12 zeros!), zillion etc. Let's roll on to bigger quantities now!
English

Hindi

Transliteration

Two hundred (200)

()

do sau

()

Five hundred (500)

pncha sau

One thousand (1000)

ka hazra

Five thousand (5000)

Ten thousand (10,000)
Hundred thousand/One lakh (100,000)
One million/Ten lakh (1,000,000)
Ten million/One crore (10,000,000)

pca hazra

dasa hazra

ka lkha

dasa lkha
ka karoa

Hundred million/Ten crore (100,000,000)

dasa karoa

One billion (1,000,000,000)

ka araba

Hundred billion (100,000,000,000)

ka kharaba

Ordinals
Hindi ordinals are a piece of cake once you are thorough with the cardinals. Only the first six ordinals are unique.
English

Hindi

Transliteration

First (1st)

/ (/)

pahal/prathama

Second (2nd)
Third (3rd)
Fourth (4th)
Fifth (5th)
Sixth (6th)
Seventh (7th)
Eighth (8th)
Ninth (9th)
Tenth (10th)

/ (/) dusar/dvitya
/
(/) tisar/tr
t ya
/
(/)

cauth/caturtha

/ (/ )

chah/aha

/
(
/) pcav/pacama

/ (
/) stav/saptama

/ (
/) hav/aama

/ (
/)

nauv/navama

/ (
/) dasav/daama

Fourteenth (14th)

(
)

caudahav

Seventy eighth (78th)

(
)

ahahattarav

Hundredth (100th)

sauv

(
)

shunya ek do teen char panch chhah saat aath nao das gayar 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
As you would have noticed by now that in Hindi '
' acts just like 'th' in English which you can add to the end of
cardinal numbers to form the corresponding ordinal numbers. If you're wondering about the irregularities of the
second options, then let us just tell you that they are the Sanskrit ordinal numbers that are used often in Hindi. You
just have to remember ten of them (for they sometimes appear in texts/speeches). After ten, any ordinal numbers
you would encounter would be most likely in the general form of ordinal number+v
Note :- As we mentioned before that the Hindi cardinal numbers are not standardized and several variants exist for
the same number. For example and are both correct for representing sixty seven. All of these variant
forms could be considered correct, however for maintaining uniformity throughout this wikibook we'd be using the
forms that are mentioned in this text which is also advocated by the Central Hindi Directorate, Government of India,
Ministry of Education and Social Welfare (BGMH, pp. 64-5)
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