"יש לה חמישה עשר ילדים."

Translation: She has fifteen children.

[firerosearien]

Oh my someone has been productive

[CSco10]

One child for each tribe of Israel and 3 in spare.

[lanadelrey101]

By the way, colloquially, we would say יש לה חמש עשרה ילדים.

[LeChiffre3]

מזל טוב!

[JhadeSaGrave]

Really hoping she's a teacher...

[mberry923]

The speaker really slurs all those words together. Even after receiving the correct answer, I still can't make his voice distinctly match the words. Yikes.

[4kzaj]

יש לכאמישער ילדים is what I hear.

[ngarrang]

and she lives in a shoe
with so many children
she knows not what to do

[Hava_Dorit]

Don't laugh at this sentence! I know a family in my Jerusalem neighborhood with 15 children. My husband and I enjoyed their Shabbat hospitality this past Shabbat VaYeshev!

Happy Hanukkah, y'all!

[Cosmopolitan1]

of course Duo is speacking about a tasty mouse :D

[TheOneAndOnlyBK]

...And counting.

[FerberKsen]

Strawberry

[AnCatDubh]

הִיא מְאֹד אוֹהֶבֶת אֶת בַּעֲלָהּ.

[xerostomus]

החברה לשעבר שלי הייתה מהמשפחה עם שלושה עשר ילדים. בהתחלה לא רציתי להאמין לה את זה. למרות שרוב הילדים היו סטודנטים באוניברסיטים. טוֹב. נסים קורה. :-)

[danny912421]

I think "my last girlfriend" would be החברה האחרונה שלי. I think שעבר is used only in time related sentences - בשנה שעברה - last year.

[YardenNB]

You're right about שעבר. But xerostomus correctly used לשעבר, which means "former" or "ex-".

[danny912421]

Oh, thank you for the clarification.

[CarissaS103]

Poor dear must be exhausted.

[Theresa754142]

My dad is the youngest of 12 and by the time he came along, the older ones helped care for him.

[hurricanechild]

It sounds exactly the same as יש לך

[YardenNB]

Right. It's not a problem with the speaker, it's pronounced the same by everyone, even when speaking slowly.

[fmbk7]

It did to me too. Duolingo accepted it as correct though.

[TeribleT]

Next up: how to pronounce מכונת כביסה
Mekonat Cvisa ... (washing machine).. that's all I can imagine, how much laundry 15 kids would produce).

[Suzy65204]

God help her....

[AniOhevYayin]

It's tedious that DL asks for plene spelling with the yod for חמשה (if you spell it defectively--without the yod--it says there's a typo). It should just be an optional spelling, not a typo. [Ok, thanks, Hava_Dorit]

[Hava_Dorit]

Why tedious? DL apparently doesn't teach Biblical Hebrew yet. ;-) I find that modern Hebrew spells things out more. Many of us probably haven't seen the word for 5 spelled as you did above.

Maybe you'll be the one who will bring this to us here at Duolingo?

[JimCopelan1]

Wouldn't mind a few of my own

[VforBBforV]

Never mind the amount of kids, but why has this number suddenly got a י in the middle of it? Struggling a bit with the sheer variety of ways to use each individual number? Thanks in advance :-)

[keren950203]

It reminds me "גִּזְרַת הַכְּפוּלִים" in which the inflected forms get Dagesh (and sometimes Khiriq): עֵז-עִזִּים (goat), לְאַט-אִטִּי (slowly, slow). I don't know exactly why, but as you can see it is quite similar to the numbers 5 and 6: חָמֵשׁ-חֲמִשָּׁה-חֲמִשִּׁים, שֵׁש-שִׁשָּׁה-שִׁשִּׁים.

[JoshuaPaulKrug]

Wonderful.

[pollitotitorojo]

היא עכבר.

[Hep0nen]

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: thy children like olive plants about thy table. In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the Lord

[Theresa754142]

Yesh la khamisha asar yeladim.

[Arno2Nino]

Save the planet, just don't