"여덟 명의 여자가 병원에 있습니다."

Translation: Eight women are in the hospital.

[HelloMichaelh]

The translation when hovering over 명의 says "seventeen men".

[Ash-Fred]

Fixed. Thank you!

[Kathi881421]

Why is the counter before "여자가", not behind?

[lou_19]

It can be written both ways.

[Kathi881421]

Why is the counter "먕의" before "여자가" and not behind?

[UltimetaSy]

There are 2 ways for counting:

1. Noun + number + counter 사람 다섯 명

Or

1. Number + counter의 + Noun 다섯 명의 사람

[JohnPeterK2]

I wrote eight women are at the hospital but it was marked as wrong. Why?

[slacjs]

It wants "in" instead of "at". I reported it as a correct answer.

[Ash-Fred]

We just realised that this sentence isn't in the past tense, so we added a new exercise with the particle -었-, and your answer in the past form "Eight women were at the hospital." will be accepted there. Thank you! :)

[UltimetaSy]

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[ANeFv]

Why is the possessive 의 used here after the person-counter 명?

[Ash-Fred]

It is not the possessive particle, just like the English word of. 여덟 명의 여자 literally means 8 units of women. However, just like most other cases, you can drop 의 though it's usually not dropped when the counter is of one syllable.