Modern · Israeli Hebrew
Count, tell time and dates, and handle numeral gender agreement — the practical scaffolding for future-tense planning.
Lesson 13 — Numbers
Core concepts · 4
- Cardinals 1–10 have masculine AND feminine forms and (confusingly) disagree in gender with the noun they count.
- Ordinals (רִאשׁוֹן, שֵׁנִי, שְׁלִישִׁי…) agree like adjectives; tens are plurals (עֶשְׂרִים…); letter-numerals use טו/טז for 15/16 to avoid the Divine Name.
- Dates use ordinals/cardinals; clock times and money (shekels + agorot) read as cardinals; phone numbers use the shorter feminine cardinals.
- Most spoken imperatives are simply the future tense, except a few set forms: שֵׁב 'sit!', לֵךְ 'go!', קַח 'take!', קוּם 'get up!'.
Vocabulary & signs · tap a word to hear, expand for how to say it
one (m. / f.)
say: ʾechad / achat
three (m. / f.)
say: shlosha / shalosh
first / second
say: rishon / sheni
tomorrow
say: machar
get up! / go! (set imperatives)
say: kum / lech
Exercises · answer in the app
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Future prefix for 'I (will)' is…
Bridge to this week
Week 10 plans 'tomorrow' aloud with future verbs; OHT's numbers, dates, clock-times and the handful of true imperatives (קום/לך/קח) are what make that planning concrete.
The Online Hebrew Tutorial v2.0 — Ben Stitz
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