Learn how to say numbers 10-100 and up to 10,000
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Shira: Hi, everyone, Shira here, and welcome to Basic Bootcamp Lesson 5, Counting from One Hundred to One Million in Hebrew. This is the fifth in a five-part series that will help you ease your way into Hebrew. |
| Amir: Shalom, Amir here. |
| Shira: In this lesson, we'll continue with more of the essentials of Hebrew numbers. But this time, we will venture into higher number territory, the numbers over one hundred all the way to one million. |
| Amir: That sounds great! |
| Shira: So here, you'll be listening to two people at an auction. |
| Amir: That's right! They'll be bidding on an ancient clay vase. |
| Shira: Let's listen to the conversation! |
| Dialogue |
| Amir: מאה |
| Shira: מאתיים |
| Amir: שלוש מאות |
| Shira: ארבע מאות |
| Amir: חמש מאות |
| Shira: שש מאות |
| Amir: שבע מאות |
| Shira: שמונה מאות |
| Amir: תשע מאות |
| Shira: אלף |
| Amir: אלפיים |
| Shira: שלושת-אלפים |
| Amir: ארבעת-אלפים |
| Shira: חמשת-אלפים |
| Amir: ששת-אלפים |
| Shira: שבת-אלפים |
| Amir: שמונת-אלפים |
| Shira: תשעת-אלפים |
| Amir: עשרת-אלפים |
| Shira: עשרים אלף |
| Amir: שלושים אלף |
| Shira: ארבעים אלף |
| Amir: חמשים אלף |
| Shira: ששים אלף |
| Amir: שבעים אלף |
| Shira: שמונים אלף |
| Amir: תשעים אלף |
| Shira: מאה אלף |
| Amir: מיליון |
| [Slow version] |
| Shira: Let's hear it again slowly now. |
| Amir: עכשיו, בואו נשמע את זה לאט יותר. |
| Amir: מאה |
| Shira: מאתיים |
| Amir: שלוש מאות |
| Shira: ארבע מאות |
| Amir: חמש מאות |
| Shira: שש מאות |
| Amir: שבע מאות |
| Shira: שמונה מאות |
| Amir: תשע מאות |
| Shira: אלף |
| Amir: אלפיים |
| Shira: שלושת-אלפים |
| Amir: ארבעת-אלפים |
| Shira: חמשת-אלפים |
| Amir: ששת-אלפים |
| Shira: שבת-אלפים |
| Amir: שמונת-אלפים |
| Shira: תשעת-אלפים |
| Amir: עשרת-אלפים |
| Shira: עשרים אלף |
| Amir: שלושים אלף |
| Shira: ארבעים אלף |
| Amir: חמשים אלף |
| Shira: ששים אלף |
| Amir: שבעים אלף |
| Shira: שמונים אלף |
| Amir: תשעים אלף |
| Shira: מאה אלף |
| Amir: מיליון |
| [With English translation] |
| Shira: And now with the translation. |
| Amir: ועכשיו עם התרגום. |
| Amir: מאה |
| Shira: "one hundred" |
| Amir: מאתיים |
| Shira: "two hundred" |
| Amir: שלוש מאות |
| Shira: "three hundred" |
| Amir: ארבע מאות |
| Shira: "four hundred" |
| Amir: חמש מאות |
| Shira: "five hundred" |
| Amir: שש מאות |
| Shira: "six hundred" |
| Amir: שבע מאות |
| Shira: "seven hundred" |
| Amir: שמונה מאות |
| Shira: "eight hundred" |
| Amir: תשע מאות |
| Shira: "nine hundred" |
| Amir: אלף |
| Shira: "one thousand" |
| Amir: אלפיים |
| Shira: "two thousand" |
| Amir: שלושת-אלפים |
| Shira: "three thousand" |
| Amir: ארבעת-אלפים |
| Shira: "four thousand" |
| Amir: חמשת-אלפים |
| Shira: "five thousand" |
| Amir: ששת-אלפים |
| Shira: "six thousand" |
| Amir: שבעת-אלפים |
| Shira: "seven thousand" |
| B: שמונת-אלפים |
| Shira: "eight thousand" |
| B: תשעת-אלפים |
| Shira: "nine thousand" |
| B: עשרת-אלפים |
| Shira: "ten thousand" |
| B: עשרים אלף |
| Shira: "twenty thousand" |
| Amir: שלושים אלף |
| Shira: "thirty thousand" |
| Amir: ארבעים אלף |
| Shira: "forty thousand" |
| Amir: חמשים אלף |
| Shira: "fifty thousand" |
| Amir: שישים אלף |
| Shira: "sixty thousand" |
| Amir: שבעים אלף |
| Shira: "seventy thousand" |
| Amir: שמונים אלף |
| Shira: "eighty thousand" |
| B: תשעים אלף |
| Shira: "ninety thousand" |
| Amir: מאה אלף |
| Shira: "one hundred thousand" |
| Amir: מיליון |
| Shira: "one million" |
| Post-dialogue Banter |
| Shira: Let's use these numbers a little. Let's talk about the place where you find the most numbers in Israel. |
| Amir: I'm not following … Where are you going with this? Where do you find numbers in Israel? |
| Shira: Why in Tel Aviv, of course! It's the financial center of Israel. |
| Amir: Aha! Now I understand. Of course! You find many of Israel's highest-profiting companies in Tel Aviv. |
| Shira: Not only that, it is the home of Israel's only stock exchange, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. |
| Amir: Of course. But in Israel, we call it the Bursa. |
| Shira: Tel Aviv also has the second-largest economy in the Middle East. |
| Amir: But all this financial success does come at a price. Rent is extremely high, so high that hundreds of thousands of residents of Tel Aviv have lately gone to the streets to protest it. |
| Shira: Yes, I lived in Tel Aviv when I first came to Israel, and at that time it wasn’t so bad, but now many of my friends struggle to find affordable apartments there. What would you say is the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv? Let's practice some numbers. |
| Amir: For an average, one-bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv, you would pay around ארבעת אלפים שקל. |
| Shira: That would be "four thousand shekels" in English. That's over $1,000 right now. |
| Amir: Compared to the rest of Israel and the average salary, it's quite a lot. |
| Shira: Yes, but I have many friends who think it's worth it to live in Tel Aviv. So let's move on to our vocabulary for this lesson. |
| Vocab list |
| Shira: First we have... |
| Amir: מאה |
| Shira: "one hundred" |
| Amir: מאה (slowly) |
| Amir: מאה |
| Shira: Then we have... |
| Amir: מאתיים |
| Shira:"two hundred" |
| Amir: מאתיים (slowly) |
| Amir: מאתיים |
| Shira: Next is... |
| Amir: שלוש מאות |
| Shira: "three hundred" |
| Amir: שלוש מאות (slowly) |
| Amir: שלוש מאות |
| Shira: Then we have... |
| Amir: ארבע מאות |
| Shira: "four hundred" |
| Amir: ארבע מאות (slowly) |
| Amir: ארבע מאות |
| Shira: Our next word is... |
| Amir: חמש מאות |
| Shira: "five hundred" |
| Amir: חמש מאות (slowly) |
| Amir: חמש מאות |
| Shira: Next is... |
| Amir: שש מאות |
| Shira: "six hundred" |
| Amir: שש מאות (slowly) |
| Amir: שש מאות |
| Shira: Then we have... |
| Amir: שבע מאות |
| Shira: "seven hundred" |
| Amir: שבע מאות (slowly) |
| Amir: שבע מאות |
| Shira: The next word is... |
| Amir: שמונה מאות |
| Shira: "eight hundred" |
| Amir: שמונה מאות (slowly) |
| Amir: שמונה מאות |
| Shira: Then there's... |
| Amir: תשע מאות |
| Shira: "nine hundred" |
| Amir: תשע מאות (slowly) |
| Amir: תשע מאות |
| Shira: We'll continue with... |
| Amir: אלף |
| Shira: "one thousand" |
| Amir: אלף (slowly) |
| Amir: אלף |
| Shira: Finally, we have… |
| Amir: מליון |
| Shira: "one million" |
| Amir: מליון (slowly) |
| Amir: מליון |
| Vocabulary Usage |
| Shira: There is one number that we haven't mentioned yet, and that’s zero. |
| Amir: "Zero" is אפס. |
| Shira: And one million is a number you'd most likely use only if you hit the jackpot! |
| Amir: That's true, at least, when it comes to money. |
| Shira: What about all the other millions? |
| Amir: They follow the pattern of the tens or hundreds of thousands, so it's the masculine number plus the word מיליון. |
| Shira: So now we need to put it all together. We need a very large number for that. Any ideas on what we can use? |
| Amir: How about "seven hundred sixty-three thousand, eight hundred and fifty-two?" |
| Shira: What's that? |
| Amir: It’s the population of Jerusalem, of course. |
| Shira: Oh, of course. So how would that sound in Hebrew? |
| Amir: We would say: שבע מאות שישים ושלוש אלף שמונה מאות חמישים ושתיים |
| Shira; Whoa, that’s a big number. And now, let's have another example, the only one where we pronounce digits separately in Hebrew, a phone number. |
| Amir: אפס, חמש, ארבע, שבע, חמש, שמונה, אחת, תשע, שתיים, אפס |
| Shira: They can also be pronounced in tens, but for better understanding, we use separate digits. |
Lesson focus |
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| Shira: Let's take a look at the structure of multiples of one hundred. |
| Amir: We've already learned how to say "one hundred," מאה. |
| Shira: "Two hundred" is different than all the other numbers because it takes the special double number form. |
| Amir: So, we start with the number מאה as the base, drop the –ה and change it to a –ת, and then add the special double word ending –יים. So in the end, we have מאתיים. |
| Shira: The double endings are a special aspect of Hebrew. You will find them used for many words that come in pairs and twice in this lesson. |
| Amir: What a coincidence. So to build multiples of one hundred beyond two hundred, we simply take the feminine numbers from three to nine and add מאות after them. One thing you must remember though is that the vowels of the feminine numbers change a bit when in the hundreds. |
| Shira: So listen and repeat. |
| Amir: שלוש מאות, {pause} ארבע מאות, {pause} חמש מאות, {pause} שש מאות, {pause} שבע מאות, שמונה מאות, {pause} תשע מאות |
| Shira: From the previous Basic Bootcamp lesson, we also remember how to build three-digit numbers with one hundred. Now we'll use the same system to build the numbers from two hundred through nine hundred and ninety-nine. |
| Amir: ארבע מאות ואחת |
| Shira: "Four hundred and one" sounds familiar. Oh, there is a horror TV show in America called "Room 401." What's next? |
| Amir: מאתיים שלושים ושבע |
| Shira: Why do you come up with such creepy numbers? Room 237 was the one in Steven King's "The Shining," the movie all the horror films started from! |
| Amir: Sorry, somehow I just have a good memory for creepy things. |
| Shira: Yah. Anyway, On to our next example. |
| Amir: תשע מאות וארבע עשרה. |
| Shira: And here we have a literal translation into English, "914." And luckily, I have a better association with this number. There was a cute old Porsche built about forty years ago called the VW-Porsche 914. |
| Amir: And about five years earlier, Porsche תשע מאות ושתיים עשרה was built. |
| Shira: "Porsche 912." Okay, can you remember any other interesting things with the numbers one thousand and above? Oh, but first, Amir, give us the word for "thousands." |
| Amir: אלפים. |
| Shira: So what is "one thousand?" |
| Amir: אלף ("thousand"), you don't really have to say "one" here. |
| Shira: And "four thousand?" |
| Amir: ארבעת אלפים. |
| Shira: So we take the masculine number "four," drop the –ה and add -ת, and then add the word "thousands," but be careful. The ending in אלף has changed because of the plural number. |
| Amir: אלפים. |
| Shira: So here's what we have. Listeners, repeat after Amir. |
| Amir: אלף, {pause} אלפיים, {pause} שלושת אלפים,{pause} ארבעת אלפים,{pause} חמשת אלפים,{pause} ששת אלפים,{pause} שבעת אלפים,{pause} שמונת אלפים,{pause} תשעת אלפים. |
| Shira: When we say "twenty-one thousand," "twenty-two thousand," "twenty-three thousand," and "twenty-four thousand," we just say עשרים ואחת אלף. |
| Amir: עשרים ושתיים אלף, and so on. |
| Shira: So you just take a multiple of ten (ten, twenty, thirty...), add a number from one to nine, and then add "thousand." Easy as that! So give us a complicated four-digit number. |
| Amir: אלפיים ואחת עשרה. |
| Shira: Nice, that was last year. "Two thousand and eleven." |
| Amir: How about תשעים מאתיים ועשר? |
| Shira: Another TV show number, "90210." But in Hebrew, we'd say that as, "ninety, two hundred ten." Okay, give us the last one, Amir. The year you were born, for example. |
| Amir: Oh, you didn't have to say, "for example" to know my age. Anyway, I've mentioned it before. So the year I was born is אלף תשע מאות שבעים ושבע. |
| Shira: "One thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven" in Hebrew. So the formula with numbers in the thousands is first you say how many thousands you have, then how many hundreds, then tens, and then ones. |
| Amir: That’s right, like in most languages, I think. Anyway, that's a lot of numbers. |
| Shira: Yes, I am more than satisfied with my number quota for the day. |
Outro |
| Shira: Well, that's it for this lesson. |
| Amir: להתראות! |
| Shira: See you! |
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