how to say “quantity” in Hebrew
כַּמּוּת
The Ancient Hebrew dialects did not have have a word for quantity.
So what did Modern Hebrew do to supply one? It took the word for how much – כַּמָּה – and appended the abstract-noun-making וּת- ending to it, and yielded the word כַּמּוּת .
– and appended the abstract-noun-making וּת- ending to it, and yielded the word כַּמּוּת . For example:
מְדֻבָּר בְּכַמּוּת גְּדוֹלָה מְאֹד שֶׁל בּוּלִים.
We’re talking about (what’s spoken about is) a very large quantity of stamps.
