अठारह (athaarah)

numeral The number eighteen (18); a single-sense numeral used for counting, quantities, and dates.
Sense 1 : the number eighteen (18)
numeral
Frequency: high
Cultural Note: Like most Hindi numbers from 1 to 99, अठारह (athaarah) is a fused, unpredictable form rather than a compound of दस (das, 'ten') and आठ (aath, 'eight') -- Hindi numerals were memorized as a block by generations of schoolchildren, and eighteen is simply one you have to learn by rote like the rest.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes confuse अठारह (athaarah, 'eighteen') with अट्ठारह-sounding neighbors like अठाईस (athaaiis, 'twenty-eight') due to similar-feeling shapes -- there is no real overlap, but the numbers eighteen through thirty are all irregular and worth memorizing as a block rather than deriving from tens plus units.
Sample Sentences:
मेरी बेटी अठारह साल की हो गई है। My daughter has turned eighteen years old.
(merii betii athaarah saal kii ho gaii hai।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
अठारह साल की उम्र में वोट देने का अधिकार मिल जाता है। At the age of eighteen, one gets the right to vote.
(athaarah saal kii umr men vot dene kaa adhikaar mil jaataa hai।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
क्लास में अठारह बच्चे थे। There were eighteen children in the class.
(klaas men athaarah bachche the।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
अगर उसकी उम्र अठारह होती, तो वह ड्राइविंग लाइसेंस बना सकता। If he were eighteen, he could get a driving license made.
(agar uskii umr athaarah hotii, to vah draaiving laaisens banaa saktaa।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Counterfactual -- Aspect: Habitual -- Voice: Active
कृपया अठारह साल से कम उम्र के लोग यह फिल्म न देखें। Please, people under the age of eighteen should not watch this film.
(kripyaa athaarah saal se kam umr ke log yah philm n dekhen।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Imperative -- Voice: Active
यह नियम अठारह साल से ऊपर के सभी नागरिकों पर लागू किया जाता है। This rule is applied to all citizens above eighteen years of age.
(yah niyam athaarah saal se oopar ke sabhii naagrikon par laagoo kiyaa jaataa hai।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Passive
शायद वह अठारह साल का हो, मुझे ठीक से पता नहीं। Maybe he is eighteen years old, I don't know exactly.
(shaayad vah athaarah saal kaa ho, mujhe thiik se pataa nahiin।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Subjunctive -- Voice: Active
अगली बस स्टॉप पर अठारह नंबर बस रुकेगी। Bus number eighteen will stop at the next bus stop.
(aglii bas stop par athaarah nambar bas rukegii।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Tense: Future -- Voice: Active
टीम ने अठारह रन बना लिए हैं। The team has scored eighteen runs.
(tiim ne athaarah ran banaa lie hain।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
दुकान वाला अठारह रुपये मांग रहा है। The shopkeeper is asking for eighteen rupees.
(dukaan vaalaa athaarah rupye maang rahaa hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Continuous -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
पूरे गाँव से अठारह लोग चुने गए थे। Eighteen people had been selected from the entire village.
(poore gaanv se athaarah log chune gae the।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Passive