Numbers 0–10
సంఖ్యలు 0–10
The first ten numbers show up constantly — ages, prices, phone numbers, quantities — and they set up the pattern the rest of the number system builds on.
Grammar Comparison
వ్యాకరణ పోలిక
jeden Changes Like an Adjective — Telugu Numbers Never Do
jeden, jedna, jedno
ఒకటి (ఎప్పుడూ మారదు)
Unlike the other numbers, 'one' agrees with the gender of the noun it counts: jeden dom (one house, masculine), jedna książka (one book, feminine), jedno okno (one window, neuter). Telugu numbers have no equivalent behavior — ఒకటి ('one') stays the same whether you're counting ఇల్లు (a house) or పుస్తకం (a book), so this gender-matching habit for 'one' is genuinely new territory, not something to map onto an existing Telugu instinct.
Age: 'To Have' in Polish, Neither 'To Be' Nor 'To Have' in Telugu
Mam dwadzieścia lat.
నాకు ఇరవై సంవత్సరాలు.
Polish says age with mieć (to have) — Mam dwadzieścia lat is literally 'I have twenty years'. Telugu takes a third path, different from both Polish and a direct 'to be' translation: నాకు ఇరవై సంవత్సరాలు (naaku iravai samvatsaraalu) is literally 'to-me twenty years', using the dative 'to me' rather than either 'having' or 'being'. Since Telugu already avoids saying age with 'to be', the Polish habit of reaching for mieć instead of być won't feel entirely foreign — just don't assume Telugu's dative construction transfers directly, since Polish still needs its own 'I have' verb form here, not a 'to me' phrase.
Vocabulary
పదజాలం
- Telugu
- సున్నాsunnaa
- English
- zero
- Telugu
- ఒకటిokati
- English
- one
- Telugu
- రెండుrendu
- English
- two
- Telugu
- మూడుmoodu
- English
- three
- Telugu
- నాలుగుnaalugu
- English
- four
- Telugu
- ఐదుaidu
- English
- five
- Telugu
- ఆరుaaru
- English
- six
- Telugu
- ఏడుedu
- English
- seven
- Telugu
- ఎనిమిదిenimidi
- English
- eight
- Telugu
- తొమ్మిదిtommidi
- English
- nine
- Telugu
- పదిpadi
- English
- ten
- Telugu
- నీకు ఎంత వయస్సు?neeku enta vayassu?
- English
- How old are you?