Lesson 0008 Spoken Kannada ~12 min

Numbers 11–20 (+ money stretch)

Extend L3 so shop and auto prices above ten don’t go blank — lock 11–20, recycle tens, and hear money in the wild.

Audio: Machine-generated Kannada (edge-tts · kn-IN-SapnaNeural). Helpful for rhythm and recognition — may not perfectly match native Bengaluru pronunciation. Prefer what you hear from neighbours when the two differ.
Today’s win

Count hannondu → ippatthu out loud, catch prices like hadinaru / hadinentu / ippatthu rupayi, and still run Idhu eshtu? without freezing.

Spaced review (1–10): ondu eradu mooru naalku aidu aaru elu entu ombattu hattu · Idhu eshtu? · Swalpa kammi maadi

01 Why this matters

Auto minimums, snacks, and society payments live in the teens and twenties. L3 gave you 1–10 and a few anchors; this lesson makes the teen band automatic so you can hear the bill.

02 One pattern: teens ≈ “hadi-” + digit

Pattern

Many teens start with a hadi- sound (think “ten-and…”): 11 hannondu · 12 hanneradu · 13 hadimooru · … · 18 hadinentu · 19 hattombattu · 20 ippatthu.

Don’t overfit the rule — drill the list as chunks. Hindi bridge: 11–19 feel like gyarah–unnees inventory, not math.

03 Numbers 11–20

11hannondu
12hanneradu
13hadimooru
14hadinaalku
15hadinaidu
16hadinaru
17hadinelu
18hadinentu
19hattombattu
20ippatthu

Recycle tens (recognition → light production): 30 moovattu · 40 nalavattu · 50 aivattu · 60 aravattu · 70 eppattu · 80 embattu · 90 tombattu · 100 nooru

Goal today: own 11–20. Tens stay “spot when shouted at the counter.”

04 Phrase cards (numbers in use)

Hadinaidu rupayi

slownatural

Fifteen rupees

≈ Pandrah rupaye

Number + rupayi (L3). Swap any teen.

Ippatthu rupayi sari na?

slownatural

Twenty rupees, okay?

≈ Bees rupaye, theek hai?

Confirm a quoted price. na? tag from L4.

Hanneradu idli · Hadimooru coffee

slownatural
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Twelve idlis · Thirteen coffees (party order energy)

≈ Barah idli…

Number before item works; for 1–2 you already use ondu/eradu after or before — both heard.

Eshtu? — Hadinaru.

slownatural

How much? — Sixteen.

≈ Kitna? — Solah.

Train your ear: answer may be bare number, no “rupayi.”

Ippatthu-ge swalpa kammi maadi

slownatural

Please reduce a bit from twenty

≈ Bees se thoda kam

Compose L3 bargain + new number. -ge can mark the amount you’re pushing on.

Nooru alla — aivattu

slownatural

Not hundred — fifty

≈ Sau nahi — pachaas

alla ≈ not (negation particle). Useful when you misheard.

05 Mini vocab bank

KannadaEnglishHindi bridge
hannondu…ippatthu11…20gyarah…bees
hadinaidu
15pandrah
hadinaru
16solah
ippatthu
20bees
aivattu / nooru
50 / 100pachaas / sau
alla
notnahi (particle)

06 Model dialogue — snack counter

You
Namaskara. Idhu eshtu?

slownatural

Hello. How much is this?

Shop
Hadinentu rupayi.

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Eighteen rupees.

You
Hadinentu… swalpa kammi maadi. Hadinaru sari na?

slownatural

Eighteen… please reduce a bit. Sixteen okay?

Shop
Sari, hadinaidu.

slownatural

Okay, fifteen.

You
Sari. Dhanyavadagalu.

slownatural

Okay. Thank you.

07 Retrieval practice

1. Number 12
2. Number 15
3. Number 20
4. Number 18
5. “Not hundred”
6. Spaced: number 5 (L3)

08 Production

  1. Count 11→20 slowly, then 20→11.
  2. Say: 15 rupees, 16 rupees, 20 rupees.
  3. How much? — Eighteen.
  4. Twenty — please reduce a little.
  5. Not 100 — 50.

09 Real-world task

Before next lesson
  1. Once a day: recite 11–20 while walking (forward + back).
  2. At one purchase: ask Eshtu? and try to catch if the answer is a teen.
  3. Write down any number you heard and couldn’t parse — send it here.

10 Primary source

Cross-check cardinal numbers on WikiBooks Kannada numbers (and conversational price use from earlier lessons). Local speech may blur vowels — trust ears over spelling.

Ask your teacher

Heard something like “had-n-aidu” at speed? Type the sound — we’ll map it to the grid.

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