how to say “the 80’s” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /]שְׁנוֹת הַשְּׁמוֹנִים

While the Hebrew word for eight is שמונה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /] (or שמונָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /] if what we’re counting are masculine nouns), eighty is שמונים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /].

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /]הוא צודק שמונים אחוז מהזמן.

He’s right eighty percent of the time.

The eighties is שנות השמונים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /] – literally, the years of the eighties.

For example:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/שנות-השמונים-#.mp3″ /]נולדתי בתחילת שנות השמונים.

I was born at the start of the eighties.

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