Numbers 11–100
गिनती 11–100
Past twenty, English settles into a clean, repeating tens-then-units pattern — Hindi never does this. Every number from eleven to ninety-nine is its own fused, semi-irregular word, making this the rare stretch where English is actually more predictable than Hindi.
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
English regularizes; Hindi keeps inventing fused, irregular forms
twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three (tens word + unit word, completely predictable and repeated for every decade)
इक्कीस, बाईस, तेईस (21, 22, 23) — fused forms that don't visibly show 'twenty' + 'one/two/three'
This is a rare case where English is the tidy one. From twenty-one onward, English just states the tens word followed by the unit — twenty-one, thirty-two, forty-three — and that pattern repeats predictably all the way to ninety-nine. Hindi's numbers in this range are, by contrast, historically fused and irregular: इक्कीस (21), बाईस (22), and तेईस (23) don't transparently show बीस ('twenty') plus एक/दो/तीन the way you might expect — the tens and units have blended into a single word that has to be learned on its own, and this repeats freshly for every decade up to निन्यानवे (99). Where English lets you build twenty-one out of parts you already know, Hindi expects you to learn each number from eleven to ninety-nine close to individually — so lean on English's regularity here rather than looking for a Hindi shortcut.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
| English | Pronunciation | Hindi |
|---|---|---|
| twenty | TWEN-tee | बीसbīs |
| thirty | THUR-tee | तीसtīs |
| forty | FOR-tee | चालीसcālīs |
| fifty | FIF-tee | पचासpacās |
| sixty | SIKS-tee | साठsāṭh |
| seventy | SEV-en-tee | सत्तरsattar |
| eighty | AY-tee | अस्सीassī |
| ninety | NYN-tee | नब्बेnabbe |
| one hundred | wun HUN-dred | सौsau |
| twenty-one | TWEN-tee wun | इक्कीसikkīs |