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Bari Ginti · Big Numbers

11 to 100 — landmarks through the beautiful chaos

Level 3 warned you: Urdu numbers 1–100 are all irregular. Nobody memorizes all hundred at once — you learn the landmarks and the halves system, and bazaar math takes care of the rest.

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The phrases

گیارہgyārah — eleven
بارہbārah — twelve
پندرہpandrah — fifteen
بیسbīs — twenty
پچیسpachchīs — twenty-fiveThe quarter-century landmark — and a common price.
تیسtīs — thirty
چالیسchālīs — forty
پچاسpachās — fifty
سوsau — one hundredYour chai bill from Level 10.
ڈیڑھḍeṛh — one and a halfYes — 1.5 has its own dedicated word. See the fun fact.
ساڑھےsāṛhe — …and a halfSāṛhe tīn = 3.5. Also how clocks work: sāṛhe pāṉch = 5:30.

Good to know

✨ All hundred numbers are genuinely irregular — 87 is satāsī, 88 is aṭṭhāsī, and even native speakers pause at 79. Learn the tens, point at the rest.
✨ Urdu runs a halves system English lacks: ḍeṛh (1.5) and ḍhāī (2.5) are their own words, and sāṛhe makes any number half-more. 'Ḍeṛh sau' (150) beats saying 'one hundred fifty' every time.
Sāṛhe is how time works: sāṛhe chhe = 6:30. Master it and you can schedule chai — which is the true purpose of clocks.

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