כתב הכמויות כולל פינוי פסולת בניין.

The bill of quantities includes construction-waste removal.

Breakdown of כתב הכמויות כולל פינוי פסולת בניין.

• לכלול: to include
• כתב כמויות: bill of quantities
• פינוי פסולת בניין: construction-waste removal

Questions & Answers about כתב הכמויות כולל פינוי פסולת בניין.

What does כתב mean here? I thought כתב meant he wrote.

That is a very common question. כתב can indeed be the past-tense verb he wrote, but here it is a noun.

In this sentence, כתב הכמויות is a set phrase meaning the bill of quantities or quantity specification in a construction/contract context.

So here:

• כתב = a document / specification / written schedule
• כתב הכמויות = the bill of quantities

Hebrew often has words that can be both a verb form and a noun, so you have to decide from context.

Why is it כתב הכמויות and not something like הכתב של הכמויות?

Because Hebrew often uses a construct chain (called סמיכות) instead of of.

So:

• כתב הכמויות literally means something like document of the quantities
• in natural English, that becomes the bill of quantities

In a construct chain:

• the first noun usually does not take ה
• the second noun often carries the definiteness

So כתב הכמויות is the normal Hebrew structure here, not הכתב של הכמויות.

Why is הכמויות plural?