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"Two men and three women"
Translation:दो आदमी और तीन औरतें
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Because this is not a complete sentence. If you instead want to say 'There are two men and three women", it would be 'दो आदमी और तीन औरतें हैं'.
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If पुरुष is not accepted, you can report it.
Also, if you're using पुरुष for 'man', you should probably use महिला/स्त्री for 'woman' to maintain consistency.
In general conversations, आदमी is more common. However, in a formal context (eg: speeches, news articles etc), पुरुष is preferred.
This is true in general. The Hindi you hear on the street will be mostly composed of native vocabulary (usually descended from Sanskrit but with many orthographic changes over time) with a good smattering of words borrowed from Persian (and Arabic to a much lesser extent) and in urban areas, English. However, the more formal the setting becomes, you'll hear a greater number of words borrowed as-is from Sanskrit replacing most of the foreign origin words.
Urdu goes the other way. The Urdu on the street is indistinguishable from Hindi for the most part. However, in formal settings, there'll be many more words from Arabic and Persian.
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No. The plural of आदमी is आदमी itself.
The rule that words ending with ी have a plural form ending in ियाँ is only for feminine nouns. आदमी is masculine.
