बासठ (baasath)
numeral
The cardinal number 62 (English 'sixty-two').
Sense
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the number sixty-two
numeral
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: Numbers in this range show up constantly in everyday contexts like ages, prices, phone numbers, and cricket scores, so native speakers rattle them off without pausing to build them piece by piece -- it is worth drilling बासठ (baasath) as its own memorized chunk rather than translating digit by digit.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners often try to build this compositionally from साठ (saath, sixty) plus दो (do, two), but Hindi numbers from 21 to 99 are mostly memorized as single fused words rather than constructed on the fly -- बासठ (baasath) does not visibly contain साठ (saath), unlike English 'sixty-two.' 2) It behaves like an adjective/quantifier before a noun (बासठ किताबें baasath kitaaben, 'sixty-two books') and does not itself inflect for gender or case.
Sample Sentences:
मेरे दादाजी की उम्र बासठ साल है।
My grandfather is sixty-two years old.
(mere daadaajii kii umr baasath saal hai।)
इस किताब की कीमत बासठ रुपये है।
This book costs sixty-two rupees.
(is kitaab kii kiimat baasath rupye hai।)
उसने बासठ रन बनाकर टीम को जिता दिया।
He scored sixty-two runs and won the match for the team.
(usne baasath ran banaakar tiim ko jitaa diyaa।)
हमारी बस बासठ नंबर की है, सही वाली पकड़ना।
Our bus is number sixty-two, make sure you catch the right one.
(hamaarii bas baasath nambar kii hai, sahii vaalii pakadnaa।)
अगर उसके बासठ प्रतिशत अंक होते, तो दाखिला मिल जाता।
If he had gotten sixty-two percent marks, he would have gotten admission.
(agar uske baasath pratishat ank hote, to daakhilaa mil jaataa।)
क्लास में हर साल बासठ बच्चे भर्ती होते हैं।
Sixty-two children get admitted to the class every year.
(klaas men har saal baasath bachche bhartii hote hain।)
फोन नंबर के आखिरी दो अंक बासठ हैं।
The last two digits of the phone number are sixty-two.
(phon nambar ke aakhirii do ank baasath hain।)
शायद कमरा नंबर बासठ ही खाली हो।
Perhaps room number sixty-two is the one that's vacant.
(shaayad kamraa nambar baasath hii khaalii ho।)
पिछले साल उसका वजन बासठ किलो था।
Last year his weight was sixty-two kilos.
(pichhle saal uskaa vajan baasath kilo thaa।)