Numbers 11–100
ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಗಳು 11–100
Past twenty, German numbers do something Kannada (and English) never do: they say the units digit before the tens digit — 'one-and-twenty' instead of 'twenty-one'.
Grammar Comparison
ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ ಹೋಲಿಕೆ
Units before tens — the order flips
einundzwanzig (21 = 'one-and-twenty': ein + und + zwanzig)
ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೊಂದು (21 = 'twenty-one': ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತು + ಒಂದು, tens first)
Kannada, like English, always states the tens before the units: ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೊಂದು literally means 'twenty-(and)-one'. German reverses this for every two-digit number from 21 onward — einundzwanzig literally means 'one-and-twenty'. This trips up nearly every learner at first, because you have to hold the first-heard digit in mind until the tens word arrives: when someone says 'dreiundvierzig', keep 'drei' (3) in mind until 'vierzig' (40) confirms it's 43, not some other number starting with 3.
Tens words you can predict once you know 2–9
zwanzig (20), dreißig (30), vierzig (40)... digit + -zig
ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತು (20), ಮೂವತ್ತು (30), ನಲವತ್ತು (40)... digit + -ವತ್ತು
Both languages build their tens words the same predictable way: take the digit and attach a fixed 'tens' suffix (Kannada -ವತ್ತು/-ಪ್ಪತ್ತು, German -zig, with dreißig as the one irregular exception using -ßig instead). Once you know eins through neun, you can guess most tens words in either language without memorizing each one from scratch.
Vocabulary
ಪದಗಳು
- Kannada
- ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತುippattu
- English
- twenty (20)
- Kannada
- ಮೂವತ್ತುmoovattu
- English
- thirty (30)
- Kannada
- ನಲವತ್ತುnalavattu
- English
- forty (40)
- Kannada
- ಐವತ್ತುaivattu
- English
- fifty (50)
- Kannada
- ಅರವತ್ತುaravattu
- English
- sixty (60)
- Kannada
- ಎಪ್ಪತ್ತುeppattu
- English
- seventy (70)
- Kannada
- ಎಂಬತ್ತುembattu
- English
- eighty (80)
- Kannada
- ತೊಂಬತ್ತುtombattu
- English
- ninety (90)
- Kannada
- ನೂರುnooru
- English
- one hundred (100)
- Kannada
- ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೊಂದುippattondu
- English
- twenty-one (21)
- Kannada
- ನಲವತ್ತಮೂರುnalavattamooru
- English
- forty-three (43)