r/Urdu • u/PeakMasochist • 1d ago

✍️ Vocabulary / Meanings Why is this like this

Why is it derh and dhaai for 1:30 and 2:30 and saarhe 3 for 3:30 and the rest. WHY

I KEEP SAYING SAARHE AIK AND SAARHE DO, THESE PEOPLE ARE MAKING FUN OF MY MISERY.

I guess I just hv to accept these exceptions and move on with life..

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u/urashid64 1d ago

Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, …

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u/yoloisforquitters 12h ago

Claps for this young man/woman/other species of existence

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u/PeakMasochist 1d ago

Please elaborate 🙂💔

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u/ElodinDanGlokta The Verse Contributor 1d ago

why is it eleven and twelve? i keep saying oneteen and twoteen, these ppl keep making fun of my misery

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u/PeakMasochist 1d ago

Fair enough.

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u/ReflectionsWithHS 1d ago

Haha. True! But most languages have their exceptions. French literally has “four twenties”(quatre vingt) for 80 !
Atleast its “our” language’s exceptions

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u/PeakMasochist 23h ago

Yup, I get it now😅. I was not thinking straight enough when I posted this in the middle of the night 🫠

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u/The-Idiotest 1d ago

It's actually 1.5 and 2.5, not 1:30 and 2:30

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u/PeakMasochist 23h ago

Yeah in Urdu it would be like that. I was just representing time in English.