A room and rooms: the plural
The masculine takes the ending -im: cheder — a room, chadarim — rooms. The feminine — -ot: mita — a bed, mitot — beds. Learn the gender and you get the forms yourself, without a dictionary. For example: “שלושה חדרים ושתי מיטות.” — Three rooms and two beds. A rule from the Hebrew course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
The masculine takes the ending -im: cheder — a room, chadarim — rooms. The feminine — -ot: mita — a bed, mitot — beds. Learn the gender and you get the forms yourself, without a dictionary.
Not everything is so even. isha is a woman but nashim is women: the word lives its own life. Mayim, water, is always plural, and madregot, a staircase, looks plural though there is one staircase — the steps are just more visible.
After the numbers 3–10 the noun goes plural: shlosha chadarim — three rooms. After "two" the number has its own, dual form: pairs hold it stronger than any count.
Table
| one | many |
|---|---|
| חדר — a room | חדרים |
| חלון — a window | חלונות |
| מיטה — a bed | מיטות |
| מנורה — a lamp | מנורות |
| דלת — a door | דלתות |
By example
- שלושה חדרים ושתי מיטות.шлоша хадарим ве-штей митот.Three rooms and two beds.
- החלונות גדולים.ха-халонот гдолим.The windows are big.
- מים, בבקשה.маим, бевакаша.Water, please.
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
How is the plural formed in Hebrew?
Not everything is so even. isha is a woman but nashim is women: the word lives its own life. Mayim, water, is always plural, and madregot, a staircase, looks plural though there is one staircase — the steps are just more visible.
Why mita mitot but cheder chadarim?
The masculine takes the ending -im: cheder — a room, chadarim — rooms. The feminine — -ot: mita — a bed, mitot — beds. Learn the gender and you get the forms yourself, without a dictionary.
Which Hebrew words are only plural?
Not everything is so even. isha is a woman but nashim is women: the word lives its own life. Mayim, water, is always plural, and madregot, a staircase, looks plural though there is one staircase — the steps are just more visible.
What does it look like in a Hebrew example sentence?
“שלושה חדרים ושתי מיטות.” (шлоша хадарим ве-штей митот.) — Three rooms and two beds. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.