Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Exercises78 Preposition + suffix:ÒîôÐk ,öÑa ,Ìñ Ða1 She’s like me. 2 I’m like him. 3 You’re like them. 4 I’m here withouther. 5 She went without him. 6 What am I without you, Chaya?7 Between me and you, she’s a nobody. 8 What’s happening betweenthem? 9 Going without me? 10 They look like us.79–80 NUMERALS79 Definite numerals: ‘The three idiots’1 The two medicines 2 The ten pills 3 The two thermometers 4 Thefour doctors 5 The two of us 6 The three diseases 7 The sixty patients80 Ordinals: ‘first, second, third . . .’1 The third man 2 The fiftieth step 3 The second latke 4 The sixthdreidel 5 The first candle 6 The eighth evening 7 The forty-ninth day8 The fourth glass of wine 9 The second matza 10 The fifteenth word11 His thirteenth birthday81 Hundreds and thousandsSay aloud in Hebrew:6000, 210, 390, 445, 14,220, 2000, 9083, 860, 10,100, 269, 104,570, 613, 365, 248, 600,000, 11,504, 24,000, 967, 930, 175, 127,120, 1756, 575182 Tense2081 My mother used to start cooking supper at 3 o’clock.2 She used to iron each shirt.3 Every Yom Kippur the community would cry and wail.4 If I had a Chinese rug, I would put it here exactly.5 What kind of cake would you make, wise guy?6 If the vase were green, it would look nice on the shelf.7 Oh Ruti, I thought you were going to clean.8 He said he was tidying up but he wasn’t.9 I knew she was uptight.10 Leave a light on when you leave.