Numbers 1–10
गिनती 1–10
One through ten is the one stretch of numbers where English and Hindi are evenly matched — both are simply lists of unrelated words to memorize, with the real divergence between the two systems waiting just past ten.
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
Numbers 1–10 are simply memorized in both languages
one, two, three ... ten — no internal structure to derive them from
एक, दो, तीन ... दस — also no internal structure; each is its own word
Both English and Hindi treat one through ten as a closed set of unrelated words — there's no shortcut, you just learn ek/one, do/two, tīn/three, and so on individually, the same way you'd learn any vocabulary list. The real divergence between the two number systems doesn't start here — it appears once you cross into the teens and twenties, where English suddenly regularizes with a repeating '-teen' and '-ty' pattern, while Hindi's numbers keep inventing a fresh, semi-irregular word for nearly every number all the way up to one hundred. Enjoy this first stretch: it's the one place where neither language gives you an advantage over the other.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
| English | Pronunciation | Hindi |
|---|---|---|
| one | wun | एकek |
| two | too | दोdo |
| three | three | तीनtīn |
| four | for | चारcār |
| five | fyv | पाँचpāñc |
| six | siks | छहchah |
| seven | SEH-vn | सातsāt |
| eight | ate | आठāṭh |
| nine | nyn | नौnau |
| ten | ten | दसdas |