Hebrew Numbers   מִסְפָּרִים  -

                      Introduction to Hebrew Numbers

Modern Hebrew text today uses European digits (0, 1, 2, 3...9) to represent numbers.
However, religious or biblical text, and calendars in Hebrew will use the traditional form which uses
Hebrew letters as numeric values.

In Hebrew the numbers have different masculine and feminine forms.

In Israel most people do not pay accurate attention to the numbers
and mostly use just the numbers in the feminine form.

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   Hebrew Numbers (0-10)  מִסְפָּרִים

Feminine form

* For number 2, it slightly changes from SH'TAYIM to SH'TEY when followed by a noun.

           Example:  two girls = שְׁתֵּי יְלָדוֹת, not  שְׁתַּיִים יְלָדוֹת

מִסְפָּרִים (0-10)  Hebrew Numbers 

Masculine form

• For number 2, it slightly changes from SH'NAYIM to SH'NEY when followed by a noun.

           Example:  two children = שְׁנֵי יְלָדִים , not  שְׁנַיִים יְלָדִים 

   As mentioned, in Israel, people usually do not pay particular attention to using correct gender with numbers.  In most cases feminine form is used.

In Hebrew numbers come before the noun. The exception is for number 1.

It comes after the noun.

Example:

Exercising the Hebrew Numbers

Q.  What's your phone number?

OR JUST

Q.      What's your doctor's phone number?

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