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Revision as of 16:31, 27 August 2019
Hello everyone!
I am MJ Mahdizadeh and we have a new lesson on Farsi.
Today let me tell you about numbers in Farsi.
First of all, we have these names for numbers in Farsi:
Numbers from 0 to 10 in Farsi
- 0 (صفر - sefr)
- 1 (یک - yek)
- 2 (دو - do)
- 3 (سه - se)
- 4 (چهار - Ch'har)
- 5 (پنج - panj)
- 6 (شش/شیش - shesh/shish)
- 7 (هفت - haft)
- 8 (هشت - hasht)
- 9 (نه - noh)
- 10 (ده - dah)
Important notes:
- in colloquial 1 - yek is pronounced ye / by Afghans and Tajiks it is pronounced yak
- in colloquial 5 - panj if it is combined with a verb is pronounced payn like "5 years" = "payn sāl"
Numbers above 10 in Farsi
Numbers 11 to 19 are, as it is the case in many languages, slightly irregular:
- 11 - یازده - yāzdah
- 12 - دوازده - davāzdah
- 13 - سیزده - sizdah
- 14 - چهارده - ch'hārdah
- 15 - پانزده - pānzdah / punzdah
- 16 - شانزده - shānzsah / shunzdah
- 17 - هفده - hifdah
- 18 - هجده - hijdah
- 19 - نوزده - nuzdah
- note that Afghans and Tajiks say "hibdah" instead of "hifdah" for 17
These are the higher numbers:
- 20 - بیست - bist
- 30 - سی- si
- 40 - چهل - chehel
- 50 - پنجاه - panjāh
- 60 - شصت - shast
- 70 - هفتاد - haftād
- 80 - هشتاد- hashtād
- 90 - نود- navad
- 100 - صد- sad
- 1000 -هزار - hezār
If you want to say 21, 22, etc you have to use و ("o" = "and") and the numbers 1-9 from above.
- 21 - بیست و يك - bist-o-yek
- 22 - بیست و دو - bist-o-do
For numbers after 1000 it goes like that:
- 2000= 2*1000 (دو هزار - do hezār)
- 3000=3*1000 (سه هزار - se hezār)
and all the other ones follow the same rule. It is also the same for million and billion and...
Look at how we say this number:
- 5923: پنج هزار و نهصد و بیست و سه (panj hezār o noh sad o bist o se/ o)
I hope you have enjoyed this lesson.
Good luck.