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Hebrew numbers change with the noun they count. Use the chart and builder below for any amount from zero through the millions, with both masculine and feminine forms.
Blue words go with masculine nouns. Pink words go with feminine nouns.
khamishá is masculine because the noun is masculine. For 3 to 10 the masculine word ends in -ah.
For 3 to 10 the masculine word ends in -ah and the feminine word is the short one.
Say the ones word, then asar with a masculine noun or esre with a feminine noun.
The tens word does not change with the noun.
For 300 to 900 use a feminine ones word before meot. For 3000 to 10,000 use a masculine ones word before alafim.
Examples count a masculine noun. Hebrew reads right to left, so the first word is on the right.
Say the three word first, then the ten word. Both follow the noun.
Twenty does not change. One follows the noun.
Three counts hundreds, not the noun. Hundreds is feminine.
Three stays feminine for hundreds. Five follows the noun.
Before alafim, three becomes shloshet.
Before milyon, two becomes shnei. Not shnayim.
Build largest to smallest. Only the last part under 100 follows the noun.
Hebrew has two sets of cardinal numbers. You use the masculine forms with masculine nouns (שְׁלוֹשָׁה סְפָרִים, three books) and the feminine forms with feminine nouns (שָׁלוֹשׁ בָּנוֹת, three girls). One and two follow the noun’s gender in the expected way. From three through ten, the written form flips: the form that looks feminine goes with masculine nouns, and the form that looks masculine goes with feminine nouns.
Tens (20, 30, 40…) are the same for both genders. Teens combine a ones form with עָשָׂר / עֶשְׂרֵה. From 21 up, Hebrew usually puts the ten first and the one after it, joined with וְ (and): עֶשְׂרִים וְאֶחָד is twenty-one. Hundreds, thousands, and millions stack the same way. The builder on this page shows the pieces for any number you type.
Hebrew text is written right to left, but numerals themselves are written left to right, the same as in English. In a mixed line you read the words from the right and the digits as a Western number. That is why 2026 looks the same in a Hebrew newspaper as it does here.
Charts teach the forms. Stories teach when to use them. StoryHebrew marks every word, including numbers, with meaning and grammar, so you meet אֶחָד, שְׁתַּיִם, and עֶשְׂרִים in the same sentences you are already reading.
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