Arithmetic in Urdu

[SaeedinPakistan]

How many of you are good at doing arithmetic in just Urdu or your mother tongue?

I find my arithmetic skills don’t work too well, when I’m using Urdu to add or subtract in my mind.
Who am I kidding, I don’t even remember my “ginti” properly.

So which language to you prefer to do your arithmetic chores.

[Mademoiselle]

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Dutch.

[Chicken_Biryani]

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I see my husband do his calculations in Punjabi and he is so fast I cant even grasp a single word of it .. My dad used to do his Math in Punjabi as well ..

I am a different story all together ! Not only am I bad with calculations but I cant do it in any other language then English and also coz calculators only understand English language

[McPendo]

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In swahili.

[KKF]

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mujhe pahaaRaa [tables] men mushkil aatii thii so maiN ne nayaa tareeqa nikaalaa...english urdu mix kar diyaa...jaise:

**two one kaa two
two twoaayiiN four
two teeyaayiiN six
two chauka eight

...
...
...

two tennam twenty :)**

hai na maze kaa pahaaRaa?

[Umer]

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As a kid I was on holidays in Pakistan once and while sitting and talking with a few cousins the topic of body height came up. So I (who has never lived in Pakistan) said:

“aik sau pachathar centimetre”

And my cousin (who had lived in Pakistan her entire live at that time) goes:

“pachathar kya hota hai?”

[KKF]

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^ lol ... aajkal ke bachche apnaa bhii nahiiN jaante aur duusroN kaa bhii Theek se nahiiN jaante...

...na Khudaa hii milaa na visal-e-sanam huaa! :D

[Decent_6Chora]

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When Majlis-e-Urdu Lughat has large sign-board of "Urdu Dictionary Board" on their office building, you can figure out the status of Arithmetic in Urdu without much fuss.

PS: Saw that near Nepa some 15 years ago....

[kaka_in_usa]

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@Umer

As a kid I was on holidays in Pakistan once and while sitting and talking with a few cousins the topic of body height came up. So I (who has never lived in Pakistan) said:

“aik sau pachathar centimetre”

And my cousin (who had lived in Pakistan her entire live at that time) goes:

“pachathar kya hota hai?”

you were almost 6 fts for a kid
how tall are you now

[partyslims]

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Espanol

Treinta uno y cuarenta tres es setenta cuatro.

[pakistanimard]

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punjabi

[Enigmatic]

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english …i know my urdu ginti though thank God so that doesn’t make me the uber cool crowd who can’t go beyond 25

[The_Jinx]

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I prefer english because I was primarily taught in that; however, I don’t mind doing zarab, jama, tafreeq, taqseem in Riyazi/hisaab. I enjoy finding the hudood-e-arba just like I find hada zaviia or hada zaviaa musallas fascinating.

I am sure you also like problems regarding Ausat?

Interesting to know that the word Qaida in Seh ibaadi shakal ka Qaida or in Mustateel Qaida or in Mutawazi ul Azla or Kaseer ul Azla Qaida does not mean Al-Qaida

[Diva]

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^ Lol ..wth is that
As teacher explaining my students Arithmetic in Urdu is like 'Bhens kay aagey been bajana' they'll never listen ...watch agape all the way.
I remember, once my senior pro. asked my students about 'jama' tafreeq' ..jinss and quwwat and they were like 'what the hell is that teacher'?!?!

But I go for a bit of mix plate after counting some in Urdu I jump to English ..because some of the counting is really tongue twister.

[SaeedinPakistan]

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The conclusion I draw from this.

1. Not a lot of people’s mother tongue is Urdu.
2. The Jinx knows a lot of Urdu math terms and a lot of Qaidas none of which is Al-Qaeda.

I can count in Urdu, if I start from a ten(satar, assee, naway) or a number I’m paricularly fond of. Scanning my mind for a number I hear can be difficult at times.

However I don’t blame myself for it. I was taught arithmetic in English, despite getting schooled in Pakistan, and there’s not much I can do to fix that now.

So do your math, no matter what language you use.

[chacha_Ghalib]

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As far as simple mathematical operations are concerned, punjabi is my preferred language. Tables are very easy to do in Punjabi. In primary school, everyone was required to remember tables upto 20. That is how I still remember most of my multiplications. Examples are:

baara sat chouraasi (12 * 7 = 84)
sataaran tariyan ikwanja (17 * 3 = 51)
baro bariya ek-sou-chutali (12 * 12 = 144)

I don’t need to think what the result is. It has become second nature. As soon as I say the two multipliers, the answer just comes to me provided that I say the multipliers in a particular fashion. Even when I am explaining math in english I do the multiplication, addition etc. in punjabi in my head.

[SaeedinPakistan]

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@chacha_Ghalib

As far as simple mathematical operations are concerned, punjabi is my preferred language. Tables are very easy to do in Punjabi. In primary school, everyone was required to remember tables upto 20. That is how I still remember most of my multiplications. Examples are:

baara sat chouraasi (12 * 7 = 84)
sataaran tariyan ikwanja (17 * 3 = 51)
baro bariya ek-sou-chutali (12 * 12 = 144)

I don’t need to think what the result is. It has become second nature. As soon as I say the two multipliers, the answer just comes to me provided that I say the multipliers in a particular fashion. Even when I am explaining math in english I do the multiplication, addition etc. in punjabi in my head.

My mom does that too, only in Urdu. And how do I know, she does it aloud sometimes.

[Umer]

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you were almost 6 fts for a kid :D how tall are you now

I was 15.

[Hadeel]

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I can count till 100 in Punjabi and Urdu. But I do arithmetic in English.

Never tried doing it in Urdu/Punjabi.

[pakistanimard]

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panju panjay panjee

baara chhikay artaali

sattu satt uninjaa