Nepali Numbers 1 to 100 in Words — Full Reference Table (Ginti)

Nepali counting, known as ginti (गिन्ती), is written in the Devanagari script, the same script used for the Nepali language. Each number from 1 to 100 has its own distinct word, and there is no simple, fully regular rule the way English builds "twenty-one" and "twenty-two" from repeatable parts. Learners therefore usually memorise the ten base digits, the teens, and the ten "tens" words, then recognise the irregular joining forms in between. This page is a browsable list rather than a converter: you can scan the full 1-100 range and read the Arabic digit, the Devanagari numeral, the Nepali word and its romanization side by side.

The romanizations here are practical, pronunciation-friendly spellings rather than strict academic transliteration, so "panch" (पाँच, 5) and "chha" (छ, 6) are written the way most English speakers would say them. Because Nepali distinguishes sounds English does not, treat the roman column as a guide and rely on the Devanagari for exact spelling. Devanagari numerals map one-to-one onto Arabic digits: १ is 1, २ is 2, and so on through ९ for 9 and ० for 0.

The tables below are grouped in blocks of ten. Read each row as: Arabic number | Devanagari numeral | Nepali word | romanization.

The first ten numbers — एक (ek), दुई (dui), तीन (tin), चार (char), पाँच (panch), छ (chha), सात (sat), आठ (ath), नौ (nau) and दस (das) — are the essential building blocks of all Nepali counting and must be learned first. Note that छ (6) is a single short syllable and पाँच (5) carries a nasal vowel marked by the chandrabindu.

The teens 11-19 are irregular and are best memorised as whole words: एघार (11), बाह्र (12), तेह्र (13), चौध (14), पन्ध्र (15), सोह्र (16), सत्र (17), अठार (18) and उन्नाइस (19). The number 19, उन्नाइस, literally means "one less than twenty" — a subtractive pattern that reappears at 29, 39, 49 and beyond.

From 21 onward, numbers fuse a form of the ones digit with the tens word, but the joining forms are irregular and change spelling, so each is effectively its own word. For example 21 is एक्काइस (ekkais), 25 is पच्चिस (pachchis), 32 is बत्तिस (battis) and 45 is पैँतालीस (paintalis). The key tens anchors in this range are बीस (20), तीस (30), चालीस (40) and पचास (50).

A recurring feature is the "one less" (subtractive) number just before each new ten: 29 is उनन्तिस (unantis, one less than thirty), 39 is उनन्चालीस (unanchalis) and 49 is उनन्चास (unanchas). Recognising this pattern makes the numbers ending in 9 much easier to remember.

The middle range keeps the same fused, irregular structure. The tens anchors here are पचास (50), साठी (60), सत्तरी (70) and असी (80). Watch for spellings that shift noticeably from the base ones digit, such as 51 एकाउन्न (ekaunna), 61 एकसट्ठी (eksatthi) and 71 एकहत्तर (ekahattar) — the "one" prefix looks different in each decade.

The subtractive nines continue: 59 is उनसट्ठी (unansathhi), 69 is उनन्सत्तरी (unansattari) and 79 is उनासी (unasi). Sixty (साठी) and eighty (असी) are among the most common round numbers in everyday speech, prices and ages.

The final stretch climbs from एकासी (81) to नब्बे (90) and on to एक सय (100), literally "one hundred". Eighties largely take an -asi ending (एकासी, बयासी, त्रियासी, चौरासी), while the nineties take an -annabbe ending built on नब्बे: एकानब्बे (91), बयानब्बे (92) and so on.

As before, the last two numbers are subtractive: 89 is उनान्नब्बे (unannabbe, one less than ninety) and 99 is उनान्सय (unansaya, one less than one hundred). One hundred can be written एक सय or simply सय (saya).

Beyond the memorised 1-100 list, larger numbers combine a hundreds or thousands word with the smaller numbers you already know. One hundred is सय (saya), and multiples are formed by placing the count before it: दुई सय (dui saya) is 200, तीन सय (tin saya) is 300, and so on. A number like 235 is spoken दुई सय पैँतिस (dui saya paintis), that is, "two hundred thirty-five".

One thousand is हजार (hazar), so 1,000 is एक हजार (ek hazar) and 5,000 is पाँच हजार (panch hazar). Compounds simply chain the parts largest-first: 1,250 is एक हजार दुई सय पचास (ek hazar dui saya pachas). Because every value from 1 to 99 has a fixed word, the whole system reduces to "count of thousands + count of hundreds + the 1-99 word".

This is exactly the logic a digit-to-words converter automates. The reference above is deliberately the browsable list so you can look up or memorise the fixed forms; once those are known, building any larger number is mechanical.

For very large numbers Nepal uses the South Asian lakh–crore system rather than the international thousand–million–billion scale. One लाख (lakh) equals 100,000 (one hundred thousand, 10^5) and one करोड (crore/karod) equals 10,000,000 (ten million, 10^7). Above that come अर्ब (arab, 10^9, one billion) and खरब (kharab, 10^11, one hundred billion), each new unit being one hundred times the previous.

A distinctive feature is how digits are grouped with commas. The international system groups in threes (1,000,000), but the South Asian system groups the last three digits and then in twos thereafter, aligning the commas with lakh and crore. So ten million is written 1,00,00,000 (one crore) and five hundred thousand is 5,00,000 (five lakh). This two-digit grouping is standard in Nepali banking, government budgets and everyday price talk.

Note that Nepal has increasingly adopted the international three-digit grouping in some statistical and formal contexts, but lakh and crore remain the everyday units people use when talking about salaries, property prices and population figures.

The ten Nepali digits are ०, १, २, ३, ४, ५, ६, ७, ८, ९, corresponding to 0-9. In Unicode these occupy the code points U+0966 (० zero) through U+096F (९ nine), so any software that supports Devanagari can display Nepali numerals directly. Multi-digit numbers are written positionally exactly like Arabic numerals: 2026 becomes २०२६ and 100 becomes १००.

You will see Devanagari numerals throughout Nepali life — on bank cheques, licence plates, calendars using the Bikram Sambat (BS) era, price tags and government forms. Learning the digit shapes alongside the number words lets you both read a price tag and say the amount aloud.

To use the reference table, read each row left to right: the Arabic number, then its Devanagari numeral, then the Nepali word, then the romanized pronunciation. Memorising 1-10, the teens and the ten tens words covers the hardest part; everything else in Nepali counting is assembled from those pieces.