बावन (baavan)

numeral The cardinal number 'fifty-two' (baavan) -- a single-sense numeral like any other number word in the counting sequence.
Sense 1 : the number 52
numeral
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: Numbers like बावन (baavan) are best picked up in context -- prices, phone numbers, ages, playing-card counts (a deck famously has 52 cards, so बावन पत्तों की गड्डी (baavan patton kii gaddii, 'a deck of 52 cards') is a phrase you'll actually hear at a card table) -- rather than by drilling the list in isolation.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes try to build बावन (baavan) compositionally from पचास (pachaas, fifty) + दो (do, two), but like most Hindi numbers 21-99 it is a fixed, unpredictable form that simply has to be memorized on its own.
Sample Sentences:
ताश की गड्डी में बावन पत्ते होते हैं। A deck of playing cards has fifty-two cards.
(taash kii gaddii men baavan patte hote hain।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
यह बावन पत्तों की गड्डी है, एक भी पत्ता कम नहीं। This is a deck of fifty-two cards, not a single card short.
(yah baavan patton kii gaddii hai, ek bhii pattaa kam nahiin।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
मेरी उम्र बावन साल हो गई है। I have turned fifty-two years old.
(merii umr baavan saal ho gaii hai।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
उस दुकान का बिल बावन रुपये आया था। The bill at that shop came to fifty-two rupees.
(us dukaan kaa bil baavan rupye aayaa thaa।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
क्या तुम बावन पत्तों में से चार इक्के गिन सकते हो? Can you count four aces out of the fifty-two cards?
(kyaa tum baavan patton men se chaar ikke gin sakte ho?)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
अगर गड्डी में बावन पत्ते न होते, तो खेल शुरू ही नहीं होता। If the deck didn't have fifty-two cards, the game wouldn't even start.
(agar gaddii men baavan patte n hote, to khel shuroo hii nahiin hotaa।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Counterfactual -- Aspect: Habitual -- Voice: Active
कृपया गड्डी को गिनकर देखिए कि उसमें बावन पत्ते हैं या नहीं। Please count and check whether the deck has fifty-two cards or not.
(kripyaa gaddii ko ginkar dekhie ki usmen baavan patte hain yaa nahiin।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Imperative -- Voice: Active
उस साल बावन गाँवों में बिजली पहुँचाई गई थी। That year electricity was brought to fifty-two villages.
(us saal baavan gaanvon men bijlii pahunchaaii gaii thii।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Passive
शायद इस बार परीक्षा में बावन बच्चे बैठें। Perhaps fifty-two children will sit for the exam this time.
(shaayad is baar pariikshaa men baavan bachche baithen।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Subjunctive -- Voice: Active