Language/Iranian-persian/Vocabulary/Numbers

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.