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Lesson 4 of 10
Counting to ten in Pashto
One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Pashto words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Pashto phrases in this lesson
- یوyoo
- One
- دوهDU-wa
- Two
- درېDRA-ay
- Three
- څلورtsa-LOR
- Four
- پنځهpin-DZA
- Five
- شپږshpazh
- Six
- اووهAH-wa
- Seven
- اتهa-TA
- Eight
- نههnəh
- Nine
- لسlas
- Ten
Also "اې" (ay) in poetic or formal Pashto, but یو is what you use for counting and ordering.
Simple and standard.
Numbers up to ten are fairly straightforward; teens and twenties follow logical patterns.
The څ (ts) is a sound Pashto has and its neighbors lack.
Prices and large numbers are common after this; "بیس" (twenty), "تیس" (thirty) follow logically.