पैंसठ (painsath)
numeral
The number sixty-five (painsath), used for counting and quantities like any other numeral.
Sense
1
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the number 65
numeral
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: Numbers like पैंसठ (painsath) come up constantly in everyday haggling at the market, quoting ages, or reading prices, so it's worth drilling the sixties (साठ (saath), इकसठ (iksath), बासठ (baasath), ...) as a set rather than trying to derive them logically, since Hindi's number system from 21 to 99 doesn't compound the way English does.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes confuse पैंसठ (painsath, 65) with similar-sounding numbers in the sixties like साठ (saath, 60) or पचपन (pachpan, 55) -- Hindi numerals 21-99 are irregular and don't follow a predictable tens-plus-units pattern like English, so each one has to be learned individually. 2) The nasalization (chandrabindu) in पैंसठ (painsath) is easy to drop in writing or speech; leaving it out can make it look like a typo rather than a different number.
Sample Sentences:
मेरे पिताजी की उम्र पैंसठ साल है।
My father's age is sixty-five years.
(mere pitaajii kii umr painsath saal hai।)
इस दुकान में यह कुर्ता पैंसठ रुपये का है।
In this shop, this kurta costs sixty-five rupees.
(is dukaan men yah kurtaa painsath rupye kaa hai।)
क्या तुम इसे साठ रुपये में दे सकते हो? पैंसठ बहुत ज़्यादा है।
Can you give this for sixty rupees? Sixty-five is too much.
(kyaa tum ise saath rupye men de sakte ho? painsath bahut zyaadaa hai।)
पिछले साल हमारी बस में पैंसठ बच्चे बैठे थे।
Last year there were sixty-five children sitting in our bus.
(pichhle saal hamaarii bas men painsath bachche baithe the।)
अगर वहाँ पैंसठ लोग होते, तो हॉल भर जाता।
If there had been sixty-five people there, the hall would have filled up.
(agar vahaan painsath log hote, to hol bhar jaataa।)
साठ के बाद इकसठ, बासठ, तिरसठ, चौंसठ और फिर पैंसठ आता है।
After sixty comes sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, and then sixty-five.
(saath ke baad iksath, baasath, tirsath, chaunsath aur phir painsath aataa hai।)
कृपया गिनकर बताइए कि क्या यहाँ पूरे पैंसठ पीस हैं।
Please count and tell me whether there are exactly sixty-five pieces here.
(kripyaa ginkar bataaie ki kyaa yahaan poore painsath piis hain।)
परीक्षा में उसे सौ में से पैंसठ अंक मिले।
In the exam, he got sixty-five marks out of a hundred.
(pariikshaa men use sau men se painsath ank mile।)
शायद इस बार मंडी में गेहूँ का भाव पैंसठ रुपये प्रति किलो हो।
Perhaps the price of wheat in the market this time is sixty-five rupees per kilo.
(shaayad is baar mandii men gehoon kaa bhaav painsath rupye prati kilo ho।)
गाँव में यह मकान पैंसठ साल पहले बनाया गया था।
This house in the village was built sixty-five years ago.
(gaanv men yah makaan painsath saal pahle banaayaa gayaa thaa।)