इकहत्तर (ikahattar)
numeral
The cardinal number 71 (English: 'seventy-one'). A single-sense number word.
Sense
1
:
the number seventy-one
numeral
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: Hindi numbers from 21 to 99 are each their own memorized word rather than a predictable formula, which is why native speakers often just default to English digits for anything beyond basic counting in fast conversation -- don't be surprised to hear 'seventy-one' dropped into an otherwise Hindi sentence about ages or prices.
Common Mistakes: 1) Like all Hindi numbers 21-99, इकहत्तर (ikahattar) must simply be memorized as its own unit rather than built compositionally from 'one' and 'seventy' -- Hindi numerals in this range do not follow a predictable tens-plus-units pattern the way English does. 2) Learners sometimes confuse it with इकसठ (iksath, sixty-one) or इक्यासी (ikyaasii, eighty-one) since all three start with the 'इक' prefix marking '...-one'; the तर (tar) ending here is specific to the seventies.
Sample Sentences:
मेरे दादाजी की उम्र इकहत्तर साल है।
My grandfather's age is seventy-one.
(mere daadaajii kii umr ikahattar saal hai।)
इस किताब में इकहत्तर पन्ने हैं।
This book has seventy-one pages.
(is kitaab men ikahattar panne hain।)
पिछले साल हमारी टीम ने इकहत्तर रन बनाए थे।
Last year our team scored seventy-one runs.
(pichhle saal hamaarii tiim ne ikahattar ran banaae the।)
अगर मैं इकहत्तर नंबर और ले आता, तो पास हो जाता।
If I had brought seventy-one more marks, I would have passed.
(agar main ikahattar nambar aur le aataa, to paas ho jaataa।)
क्या इस बस में इकहत्तर सीटें हैं?
Does this bus have seventy-one seats?
(kyaa is bas men ikahattar siiten hain?)
अगले महीने यह इमारत इकहत्तर साल पुरानी हो जाएगी।
Next month this building will turn seventy-one years old.
(agle mahiine yah imaarat ikahattar saal puraanii ho jaaegii।)
यह लिस्ट इकहत्तर नामों में बाँटी गई थी।
This list was divided into seventy-one names.
(yah list ikahattar naamon men baantii gaii thii।)
प्लीज़ इस फॉर्म में इकहत्तर लिख दो, बहत्तर नहीं।
Please write seventy-one on this form, not seventy-two.
(pliiz is phorm men ikahattar likh do, bahattar nahiin।)
शायद इस बार इकहत्तर लोग परीक्षा में बैठें।
Perhaps seventy-one people will sit for the exam this time.
(shaayad is baar ikahattar log pariikshaa men baithen।)
उस साल इकहत्तर देशों ने इस समझौते पर दस्तखत किए थे।
That year, seventy-one countries had signed this agreement.
(us saal ikahattar deshon ne is samjhaute par dastkhat kie the।)