Hebrew Numbers The Hebrew language uses the Arabic

Hebrew Numbers The Hebrew language uses the Arabic numerals, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, to designate numbers. However, the names of Hebrew numbers are differentiated by the masculine and feminine gender of whatever is being quantified or counted. This module introduces the terminology associated with Hebrew cardinal numbers (0, 1, 2, …) and ordinal numbers (1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, …), along with some of their applications, such as simple (sequential) counting, counting (quantifying) things, order-numbering, and telling time. Modern Hebrew for Beginners Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com All rights reserved. 1

Hebrew Numbers: The Cardinal Numbers 0 -9 Relevant Vocabulary . תעתיק נ . מספר ז עברית תעתיק אנגלית Efes אפס 0 a number mis. PAR מספר a. HAT אחת e. HAD אחד 1 numbers mispa. RIM מספרים שתי sh. TAyim sh. NAyim שנים 2 ם שלש Also written as: ה שלוש sha. LOSH shlo. SHAH 3 ש ה ar. BA ארבע arba’AH ארבעה 4 חמש ha. MESH חמש hami. SHAH 5 ה שמנ Also written as: שש SHESH שש shi. SHAH ה ה 6 ה Modern Hebrew for Beginners 2 Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com All. SHEva rights reserved. 7 שבע shiv’AH שבעה תעתיק

Hebrew Numbers: The Cardinal Numbers 10 -19 . נ תעתיק . ז מספר Eser asa. RAH 10 עשרה a. HAT-es. REi עשרה - אחת a. HAD-a. SAR עשר - אחד 11 - שתים - שנים sh. TEIM-es. REi sh. NEIM-a. SAR 12 עשרה עשר - שלושה i sh. LOSH-es. RE shlo. SHAH-a. SAR 13 עשרה עשר - ארבעה i ar. BA-es. RE arba’AH-a. SAR 14 עשרה עשר - חמשה ha. MESH-es. REi hami. SHAH-a. SAR 15 עשרה עשר - ששה i SHESH-es. RE shi. SHAH-a. SAR 16 Modern Hebrew for Beginners 3 Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com עשרה All rights reserved. עשר תעתיק

Hebrew Numbers: The Cardinal Numbers 20 -29 . נ תעתיק . ז מספר es. RIM 20 עשרים es. RIM v a. HAT 21 עשרים ואחת es. RIM v e. HAD עשרים ואחד עשרים es. RIM u’sh. TAyim es. RIM u’sh. NAyim 22 ושתים ושנים עשרים es. RIM v sha. LOSH es. RIM u’shlo. SHAH 23 ושלושה עשרים es. RIM v ar. BA es. RIM v arba. AH 24 וארבעה עשרים es. RIM v ha. MESH es. RIM vahami. SHA 25 וחמשה * עשרים es. RIM v SHESH es. RIM v shi. SHAH 26 * These are the common colloquial forms. The formal (and biblical) versions have the preposition ו , “and”, replacing the ו. וששה 4 Modern Hebrew for Beginners Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com * עשרים All rights reserved. עשרים תעתיק e e e e

Hebrew Numbers: The Cardinal Numbers 30 -90 תעתיק מספר זו״נ שלש שלוש Also written as: shlo. SHIM 30* ים arba’IM ארבעים 40* חמשי hami. SHIM 50* ם ששי שמני shi. SHIM 60* Also written as: ם ם shiv’IM שבעים 70* * The number sequences within each of these decades follow the pattern shown for the 20 s in Slide 4. שמוני shmo. NIM 80* ם tish’IM תשעים 90* Modern Hebrew for Beginners Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com All rights reserved. 5

Hebrew Numbers: The Cardinal Numbers 100 -900 תעתיק Also written as: Modern Hebrew for Beginners זו״נ מספר mei. AH מאה 100 ma. TAyim מאתים 200 - שלש - שלוש i sh. LOSH-me OT 300 מאות ar. BA-mei. OT מאות - ארבע 400 ha. MESH-mei. OT מאות - חמש 500 SHESH-mei. OT מאות - שש 600 sh. VA-mei. OT מאות - שבע 700 - שמנה מאות - שמונה i shmo. NEH-me OT 800 מאות 6 Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef fori. OT Virtual. Yeshiva. com t. SHA-me 900 מאות - תשע All rights reserved.

Hebrew Numbers: The Cardinal Numbers 1, 000 -10, 000 תעתיק אלף al. PAyim אלפים שלשת שלושת sh. LOshet ala. FIM אלפים arba’AT ala. FIM ארבעת אלפים חמשת ha. MEshet ala. FIM אלפים ששת שמנת SHEshet ala. FIM אלפים shiv’AT ala. FIM שבעת אלפים שמונת shmo. NAT ala. FIM 7 Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com אלפים All rights reserved. Elef Also written as: Modern Hebrew for Beginners זו״נ מספר 1, 000 2, 000 3, 000 4, 000 5, 000 6, 000 7, 000 8, 000

Hebrew Numbers – Simple (Sequential) Counting Here are the rules for simple counting (one, two, three, …etc. ) in Hebrew: 1. Simple counting is done via the feminine gender cardinal numbers. 2. Simple counting in the units, teens, and 20 s decades follows the feminine gender patterns shown in Slides 2, 3, &4, respectively. 3. Simple counting in the 30 s-90 s decades follows the feminine gender pattern for the 20 s decade shown in Slide 4. 4. Simple counting in the 100 s generally follows the pattern “X 00 Y 0 and Z”, where X 00 stands for any of the 100 s, Y 0 stands for any of the 20 -90 decades, Z stand for any of the feminine gender units 1 -9. For the tens decade 11 -19, the pattern is “X 00 (and) 1 Z”. When there is no Y 0, the pattern is “X 00 (and) Z”. When there is no Z, the pattern is “X 00 (and) Y 0”; here Y 0 stands for any of the 10 -90 decades. Examples: 120 * מאה )ו( עשרים 248 מאתים ארבעים ושמונה 613 * שלוש * The items shown in parentheses, ( )ו ( מאות )ו - שש ( )ו , עשרה - indicate an alternate way of simple counting (as well as in quantifying) in )ו( חמש מאות - תשע and similar cases. address: 5. You can hear 905 the numbers 1 -103 read aloudthese at this Internet http: //www. laits. utexas. edu/hebrew/heblang/tutorials/b 1 tutor/new/numbers 1 -100. html Modern Hebrew for Beginners Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com All rights reserved. 8

Hebrew Numbers – Counting (Quantifying) Things Here are the rules for counting and quantifying things in Hebrew: 1. The numbers follow the gender of what is being counted or quantified and generally adhere to the patterns shown in Slides 2 -7, except for the case of “two”. In this case, the שנים שתים is replaced by שני שתי for the respective genders. 2. The number precedes the object (as in English and other languages, e. g. , “three children”), except for the case of “one”. In this case, the object precedes the “one”. ילדה אחת 1 girl 2 girls שתי ילדות ילד אחד 1 boy 2 boys * שני ילדים Examples: 13 girls עשרה - שלוש ילדות 13 boys עשר - שלושה ילדים 40 girls ארבעים ילדות 40 boys ארבעים ילדים 91 girls תשעים ואחת ילדות 91 boys תשעים ואחד ילדים * Note: The term ילדים is also used to denote a mixed group of children, i. e. , a group of boys and girls. מאתים ושלושה 203 boys ילדות Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com 203 girls Modern Hebrew for Beginners ושלוש All rights reserved. 9 מאתים ילדים

Hebrew Numbers: The Ordinal Numbers 1 st-10 th, and “Last” A side note: When designating items with ordinal numbers, it is customary in English (and in other languages) to use the definite article “the”, e. g. , “the first …”, “the second …”, “the third …”, “the fourth …”, “the fifth …”, “the sixth …”, “the seventh …”, “the eighth …”, “the ninth …”, “the tenth …”, …, “the last”, etcetera (etc. ) This is also the case in Hebrew, except that the object precedes the number (and is also designated by the definite article), e. g. , (in alternating masculine and feminine gender) תעתיק . נ תעתיק risho. NAH ראשונה ri. SHON shei. NITshni. YAH שניה ש נית shei. NI שני 2 nd shli. SHI שליש י 3 rd shli. SHIT revi’IT שלישי ת רביעית , “ השניה revi’I …” , “ ”… הראשון hami. SHIT חמישית hami. SHI , “ ”… הרביעית , “ השלישי …” , “ הששית …” , “ ”… החמישי , “ השמינית shi. SHIT shi. SHI ששית …” , “ ”… השביעי , , “ ”… העשירית , “ התשיעי …” ( וכלה )וכו׳ , … , “ האחרון shvi’IT שביעית shvi’I Modern Hebrew for Beginners …” Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com All rights reserved. . מספר ז ראשו 1 st ן רביעי חמיש י שביע 10 י 4 th 5 th 6 th 7 th

Telling Time Some Relevant Vocabulary אנגלית an hour/hours תעתיק sha’OTsha’AH עברית שעה שעו ת a minute/minutes da. QOTda. QAH דקהדקות שניה שני a second/seconds shni. YOTshni. YAH ות שעון שעו a clock/clocks, sh o. NIMsha’ON a watch/watches נים (a) half HEtsi חצי (a) quarter REva רבע after aha. REI אחרי Modern Hebrew for Beginners Copyright © 2007 -08 Uri Yosef for Virtual. Yeshiva. com All rights reserved. before lif. NEI לפני e 11

Telling Time (cont’d) Some Relevant Vocabulary (cont’d) אנגלית תעתיק עברית a quarter (of an) hour REva sha’AH רבע שעה a half (of an) hour ha. TSI sha’AH חצי שעה רבעי - שלשת three quarters (of an) sh. LOshet-riv. EI sha’AH hour שעה an hour and a half sha’AH va. HEtsi שעה וחצי two hours sha’a. TAyim שעתים midnight ha. TSOT (LAylah) ( חצות )לילה noon tsoho. RAyim צהרים What time is it? MAH hasha’AH? ? מה השעה The time is … Copyright © 2007 -08 hasha’AH HI …for Virtual. Yeshiva. com Modern Hebrew for Beginners Uri Yosef השעה היא. . . 12 All rights reserved.