Hindi Numbers 1 to 100 with Pronunciation

Last reviewed on 9 May 2026

Hindi numbers 1 to 100 don't follow a clean pattern the way English numbers do. English has "twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three…" — predictable suffixes on a base. Hindi has dozens of small irregularities that look hard until you spot the underlying logic, then they snap into place. This page lists every number from 1 to 100 with Devanagari and romanised pronunciation, then explains the patterns and the bigger numbers (hundreds, thousands, lakh, crore) you'll meet immediately if you spend any time around Indian prices and quantities.

If you're brand new to the script, you might want to read the Devanagari vowel signs page first so the Hindi column actually reads as something you can pronounce.

1 to 20

The first twenty are the part you simply have to memorise. Each one has its own form, like English "one, two, three… eleven, twelve, thirteen". The Hindi-Arabic numerals (०–९) sit alongside the Western digits and you'll see both, sometimes mixed.

Notice the small -rah ending on most teens (11–18) — it's a fossilised remnant of "ten". Then 19 (un-nīs, literally "less than 20") jumps the pattern. This "one less than the next round number" trick repeats: 29 is untīs, 39 is untālīs, 49 is unanchās, and so on. Once you spot it, the table looks much friendlier.

21 to 50

51 to 100

Yes — they really are mostly irregular. Native speakers learn them in childhood the same way English speakers learn the spelling of "eight". Pick a row each day and rehearse it; after a few weeks the whole table starts to feel like one familiar shape.

Hundreds, thousands, lakhs, and crores

Above 100, Hindi numbers are far more regular. The catch is that Indian English (and Hindi) doesn't always group digits the way Western English does — it uses the Indian numbering system:

• सौ (sau) — 100 (one hundred). दो सौ (do sau) = 200, तीन सौ (tīn sau) = 300, and so on.
• हज़ार (hazār) — 1,000. दो हज़ार (do hazār) = 2,000.
• लाख (lākh) — 100,000 (one hundred thousand). One lakh rupees is written ₹1,00,000.
• करोड़ (karor / crore) — 10,000,000 (ten million). One crore rupees is ₹1,00,00,000.
• अरब (arab) — 1,000,000,000 (one billion). Less common in everyday speech, but used in headlines.

So the price of a Mumbai apartment quoted as "two crore" means ₹20,000,000. A salary of "ten lakh per year" means ₹1,000,000 per year. Once you encounter lakh and crore, large sums in India become much easier to read than in Western numbering.

To say a number like 12,345, you'd typically combine in Hindi: bārah hazār tīn sau paintālīs ("twelve thousand three hundred forty-five").

Fractions and "half"

Hindi has dedicated words for the most common fractional values, and you'll hear them all the time when reading time and quantities:

• आधा (ādhā) — half (one half).
• डेढ़ (derh) — one and a half. (e.g. derh kilo = 1.5 kg)
• ढाई (dhāī) — two and a half. (e.g. dhāī ghanṭe = 2.5 hours)
• सवा (savā) — a quarter past, or "and a quarter". (e.g. savā do = 2:15 or "two and a quarter")
• पौने (paune) — a quarter to. (e.g. paune tīn = 2:45 or "a quarter to three")

Note that derh and dhāī are special — there's no "one and a half" or "two and a half" using ādhā; the dedicated forms are used instead. Beyond 2.5 you say "three and a half" the regular way: sāṛhe tīn.

Money, prices, and counting things

A few practical points that come up immediately:

• Rupees in Hindi is rupae (singular) and the same in plural; the symbol is ₹ but in Devanagari you'll often see रुपए after the number. Pacchīs rupae = 25 rupees.
• "How much does it cost?" is iskī kīmat kyā hai? (इसकी कीमत क्या है?) or more casually kitnā? (कितना? — "how much?").
• Counting people uses the same numbers, often with the word log ("people"): do log (two people), chār log (four people).
• Counting items usually doesn't need a special "classifier" the way Mandarin or Japanese do; numbers attach directly: tīn kitābein (three books), do chāy (two teas).

For travel and shopping situations, the shopping section of the common phrases page shows the relevant question forms. For directions and time-related uses, see the directions section.

How to say a number in Hindi out loud

Most people arrive here with one specific number in mind — "how do you say 15 in Hindi?", "how is 27 pronounced?" — so here is the short method for getting any number between 1 and 100 right without hunting through the whole table.

1. Under 20? It's a one-off word. Look it up in the 1–20 table above and learn it as a unit; there is no shortcut.
2. Over 20? Hindi says the unit first, then the ten — the opposite of English. 21 is ikkīs ("one-twenty"), 35 is paintīs ("five-thirty"), 68 is arsaṭh ("eight-sixty"). Once you hear the tens ending (-īs = 20s, -tīs = 30s, -tālīs = 40s, -van = 50s, -saṭh = 60s, -attar = 70s, -āsī = 80s, -nave = 90s), the number stops sounding random.
3. Ends in 9? Say "one less than the next ten": 29 is untīs, 39 untālīs, 49 unchās, 59 unsaṭh, 69 unhattar, 79 unyāsī, 89 navāsī, 99 ninyānave.

A few of the most-asked ones, written the way an English speaker would sound them out:

Stress in Hindi is light and fairly even, so don't hammer the capitalised syllable — the hints above just show where an English speaker naturally lands. The long vowels marked ā, ī and ū matter far more than stress does; the Devanagari vowel signs page explains how those are written.

Reading handwritten Hindi numerals (० to ९)

Printed Devanagari digits are easy enough, but handwritten ones on a receipt, a price board, a bus number or an old document can stop you cold. The shapes drift when written quickly, and several of them look deceptively like Western digits with different values.

Three habits make handwritten numerals readable fast:

• Read the whole group, not one digit. A price is rarely a single figure. If ३५० gives you "3, something, 0", the middle character is almost certainly ५ (5) — context narrows it before your eye does.
• Watch for the horizontal bar. Devanagari letters hang from a top line (the shirorekha); numerals do not. A run of characters with no connecting bar above them is a number, not a word.
• Check ० against the rest. Zero is the one shape that never changes, so it anchors the rest of the group and tells you the character height the writer is using.

Mixed writing is completely normal in India: a shop sign may use Western digits for the price and Devanagari numerals for the date, or vice versa. Both are correct, and both are read with the same Hindi number words listed above.

Practical tips for getting the numbers to stick

1. Learn 1–10 perfectly first. Everything else hangs off these.
2. Then 11–20 as a separate set. They are mostly irregular and have to be memorised.
3. From 20 to 99, learn the round tens (20, 30, 40 … 90). Then practise just the units that matter to you: prices you encounter, ages of people you know, your phone digits.
4. Practise out loud, not just on paper. Numbers are spoken far more often than they're written; the listening drill is what makes them automatic.
5. Use the translator in reverse: type a number in English and read the Hindi back. Then type a Hindi number word and check it gives you the digit you expected.
6. Count change, count steps, count anything. The repetition is what builds fluency, not the table on this page.

Where to go next

• The Learn Hindi guide covers the alphabet and basic grammar so you can build sentences around the numbers.
• The Devanagari vowel signs page helps if the Hindi column above still feels hard to read.
• The common phrases reference lists the questions you'll typically ask using these numbers — prices, times, directions.
• The English to Hindi sentence guide shows how to put these numbers into a full sentence.
• The common translation mistakes page covers other places machine translators trip up.