modern hebrew with memrise

1. Nouns
 We have already seen several nouns in hebrew.
Let’s explore them a bit further.

2. Nouns
 Nouns in Hebrew are either masculine or feminine.
This is different from English because English has
no gender for most nouns.
 Just as in English, Hebrew nouns can be either
singular or plural.

3. Nouns
 It is not always easy to determine whether a noun
is masculine or feminine. You must learn the
gender of the noun when you learn the noun itself.
Some masculine nouns have feminine endings and
vise versa so it is not always beneficial to
memorize the noun endings.
 That being said most nouns behave in the following
manner.

4. Nouns
Masculine Feminine
Singular --- -‫,ת‬ -‫ה‬
Plural ‫-ים‬ ‫-ות‬
 Noun endings
 As the chart shows, you can typically tell that a noun is
femimine if the last letter is either a ‫ת‬ or a ‫.ה‬
 Similarly nouns ending in ‫ים‬ are usually masculine
plural and nouns ending in ‫ות‬ are usually feminine
plural. Keep in mind there are irregular nouns that don’t
follow this pattern.

5. Nouns
 Let’s examine a few nouns we have already
learned:
 ‫ילדה‬ feminine singular
 ‫ילד‬ masculine singular
 ‫תפוח‬ masculine singular
 ‫תפוז‬ masculine singular
 ‫שמלה‬ feminine singular
 We can make these plural by replacing the existing
ending and adding the plural ending.

6. Nouns
 Let’s see those same nouns in the plural:
 ‫ילדות‬ feminine plural
 ‫ילדים‬ masculine plural
 ‫תפוחים‬ masculine plural
 ‫תפוזים‬ masculine plural
 ‫שמלות‬ feminine plural
 The definite article works the same with any
ending:
 ‫הילדות‬ , ‫ה‬‫תפוח‬ , ‫השמל‬‫ה‬ , ‫ה‬‫תפוזים‬