Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Level Two100 200 300 - 400 - 500 - 600 - 700 - 800 - 900 - Stress is on the first word, as marked. The form of the first word is thesame as for ‘13–19’ (recall 14(b)). The second word is reduced to mot infast speech, e.g. tsha-mot ‘900’.Thousands are as follows. They, too, are neutral in gender:1,000 2,000 3,000 - 4,000 - 5,000 - 6,000 - 7,000 - 8,000 - 9,000 - 10,000 - Again, stress is on the first word, which is the same as the constructmasculine form (79), although it is casually pronounced shlosht,chamesht, etc. rather than shloshet, chameshet, etc., thus shlosht-alafim.82 Tensea Past habitual tense: ‘I used to . . .’One way of expressing ‘used to’ (i.e. ‘to have been in the habit of doingsomething’) is to add the past tense of ‘be’ to the present tense of theverb in question. This is the compound past tense:142 On Shabbat I was in the habit of getting up at eight