כתב הכמויות כולל חומרי גמר.

The bill of quantities includes finishing materials.

Breakdown of כתב הכמויות כולל חומרי גמר.

• לכלול: to include
• כתב כמויות: bill of quantities
• חומרי גמר: finishing materials

Questions & Answers about כתב הכמויות כולל חומרי גמר.

Is כתב here the verb he wrote?

No. Here כתב is a noun, usually pronounced ktav, not the past-tense verb katav.

Because Hebrew is often written without vowel marks, כתב can be ambiguous by itself:

• katav = he wrote
• ktav = writing / script / document

In this sentence, the context shows it is a noun inside the fixed technical phrase כתב הכמויות.

Why does only הכמויות have ה־ and not כתב?

Because כתב הכמויות is a construct phrase (called smikhut in Hebrew).

In a construct phrase:

• the first noun usually does not take ה־
• the second noun can carry the definiteness for the whole phrase

So:

• כתב הכמויות = the bill of quantities
• literally, something like bill/document of the quantities

This is very common in Hebrew:

• בית הספר = the school
  literally house of the book

Why is it כולל and not כוללים?