चौवन (chauvan)
numeral
The cardinal number 54 (fifty-four).
Sense
1
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the number fifty-four
numeral
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: Like most Hindi numbers between 21 and 99, चौवन (chauvan) is just something you memorize as its own word rather than calculate -- native speakers do not mentally decompose it into 'four' plus 'fifty' any more than English speakers parse 'eleven' letter by letter. You will meet it most often in ages, prices, and phone-related contexts (like the last digits of a number) rather than in abstract math talk.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes try to build this compositionally from चार (chaar, 'four') and पचास (pachaas, 'fifty') the way English does; Hindi numerals from 21-99 are mostly memorized as single fused words rather than derived on the fly, and चौवन (chauvan) is one of these irregular fusions rather than a predictable combination.
Sample Sentences:
मेरे पिताजी की उम्र चौवन साल है।
My father is fifty-four years old.
(mere pitaajii kii umr chauvan saal hai।)
इस कमीज़ की कीमत चौवन रुपये है।
This shirt's price is fifty-four rupees.
(is kamiiz kii kiimat chauvan rupye hai।)
उसका नंबर चौवन से खत्म होता है।
His number ends with fifty-four.
(uskaa nambar chauvan se khatm hotaa hai।)
पिछले साल हमारी टीम ने चौवन रन बनाए थे।
Last year our team scored fifty-four runs.
(pichhle saal hamaarii tiim ne chauvan ran banaae the।)
अगर वह चौवन साल का होता, तो रिटायर हो जाता।
If he were fifty-four years old, he would have retired.
(agar vah chauvan saal kaa hotaa, to ritaayar ho jaataa।)
क्या तुम्हारे कमरे का नंबर चौवन है?
Is your room number fifty-four?
(kyaa tumhaare kamre kaa nambar chauvan hai?)
कृपया चौवन नंबर की सीट पर बैठिए।
Please sit in seat number fifty-four.
(kripyaa chauvan nambar kii siit par baithie।)
अगली बस चौवन मिनट में आएगी।
The next bus will arrive in fifty-four minutes.
(aglii bas chauvan minat men aaegii।)
शायद उसकी उम्र चौवन हो, पर वह जवान दिखता है।
Maybe he is fifty-four, but he looks young.
(shaayad uskii umr chauvan ho, par vah javaan dikhtaa hai।)