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Most languages let you assemble numbers. Hindi largely does not. 21 is ikkis, 22 is baais, 23 is teis — each one an independent word, worn down over centuries from Sanskrit compounds.
1–10: एक ek, दो do, तीन teen, चार chaar, पाँच paanch, छह chhah, सात saat, आठ aath, नौ nau, दस das
The tens: दस das (10), बीस bees (20), तीस tees (30), चालीस chaalees (40), पचास pachaas (50), साठ saath (60), सत्तर sattar (70), अस्सी assee (80), नब्बे nabbe (90), सौ sau (100)
Within each block of ten, the ending rhymes with the coming ten, not the current one. 29 is उनतीस (untees) — it leans on tees (30), not bees (20). Same for 39 (उनतालीस, untaalees), 49, and so on. Once you hear that, the nines stop feeling random.
Numbers 1–20, the round tens, and सौ (100) and हज़ार (thousand). That covers prices, ages, times and phone numbers — which is most of what a number is for in a conversation.
Prices are usually said in full: दो सौ पचास (do sau pachaas) is 250. Listen for सौ (hundred) as the pivot; everything before it is the multiplier and everything after is the remainder.
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