11.6 Cardinal Numbers Above 10

• 11-19
  • 11-12 match gender, 13-19 swap
    • 11 אֲחַד-עָשָׂר
    • 13 שְׁלֹשָה-עָשָׂר
• Decades 30 through 90 are spelled as masculine plural of the corresponding 3-9 number
  • 3 = שָׁלֹשׁ
    
  • 30 = שְׁלֹשִׁים
• 20 is a bit unusual
  • The word for two is שְׁנַיִם (male) and שְׁתַּיִם (female)
  • Since these words already have a non-singular ending, Hebrew uses the masculine plural of ten
  • עֶשֶׂר is 10
  • עֶשְׂרִים is 20
• 100 is מֵאָה
• 200 is מָאתַיִם, the plural of 100
• 300 is שְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת (“three one hundred” and so forth up to 1000)