Counting in Marathi
एक दोन तीन to शंभर — count, pay and bargain in Marathi.
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One to ten sings: एक दोन तीन चार पाच सहा सात आठ नऊ दहा — chant it walking, cooking, waiting. Marathi numbers love rhythm; your tongue learns faster than your brain. Ten numbers, total freedom in every shop.
Teens climb steadily: अकरा बारा तेरा चौदा पंधरा सोळा सतरा अठरा एकोणवीस वीस — eleven to twenty. एकोणवीस (19) and वीस (20) open the tens; climb daily and teens become trivial.
Tens multiply power: वीस तीस चाळीस पन्नास साठ सत्तर ऐंशी नव्वद शंभर — 20 to 100. Combine freely: एकवीस (21), पंचवीस (25), त्र्याऐंशी... practise सत्तावीस (27) and अडतीस (38) — the tongue-twisters that prove fluency.
Hundreds rule markets: शंभर (100), दोनशे (200), हजार (1000), लाख (100,000). दीडशे (150) and अडीचशे (250) charm shopkeepers — halves and quarters in pure Marathi. Money talks; count it in Marathi.
Words and phrases for this topic
| English | Marathi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| One | एक | ek |
| Two | दोन | don |
| Three | तीन | teen |
| Four | चार | chaar |
| Five | पाच | paach |
| Six | सहा | sahaa |
| Seven | सात | saat |
| Eight | आठ | aath |
| Nine | नऊ | nau |
| Ten | दहा | dahaa |
| Twenty | वीस | vees |
| Hundred | शंभर | shambhar |
| Thousand | हजार | hazaar |
Language, culture, and common traps
Practice: recall, then use
Use this quick recall drill for Counting in Marathi. Hide the script and romanisation columns; say the Marathi form for each cue before revealing its row, then check spelling and sound. The phrase-table speaker buttons provide a model when a matching browser voice is available.
- One
- Seven
- Thousand
Transfer practice. Choose a practical setting—a price, a quantity, an age, or an appointment time—and use the number in a complete request. Say the number once, pause, and repeat it at a natural pace. Check the script form as well as the romanisation; a familiar Arabic numeral is not a substitute for recognising the local form. Start from एक (ek) and decide whether it fits the situation before using it elsewhere.
Context check. For Counting in Marathi, “Thousand” belongs to a particular setting. A common mistake is to treat an English gloss as universal; read the language-specific note above and ask a fluent speaker when local usage differs.
Check your recall: answer key
- एक ek — One
- सात saat — Seven
- हजार hazaar — Thousand
Questions learners ask
एक दोन तीन चार पाच सहा सात आठ नऊ दहा — chant to ten, then अकरा बारा तेरा... to twenty. Rhythm first, precision follows.
वीस (20), तीस (30), चाळीस (40), पन्नास (50) — then combine: एकवीस (21), बत्तीस (32). Tens plus units, endlessly.
शंभर (100), हजार (1000), लाख (100,000). किती? (how many?) asks; numbers answer. Markets run on these three.