מספר לוחית הרישוי כתוב בתביעה.

Hebrew often uses a noun chain called סמיכות instead of של.

So מספר לוחית הרישוי is literally number of the license plate.

A של version such as המספר של לוחית הרישוי is possible, but the construct-chain version is tighter and more typical in formal or written Hebrew.

It is a nested construct chain:

• מספר = number
• לוחית רישוי = registration plate / license plate
• לוחית הרישוי = the license plate
• מספר לוחית הרישוי = the license plate number

So even though English uses a sequence of nouns too, Hebrew is doing it through a specific grammatical structure.

Because כתוב agrees with מספר, not with לוחית.

The head noun of the whole phrase is מספר (number), and מספר is masculine singular. So the predicate is also masculine singular:

• מספר ... כתוב
• not מספר ... כתובה

Even though לוחית is feminine, it is inside the noun chain and is not the main noun being described.

In present-tense Hebrew, sentences often do not use a separate word for is / are.

So:

• מספר לוחית הרישוי כתוב בתביעה

literally looks like:

• license-plate number written in-the-claim

but it means:

• The license plate number is written in the claim.

This is very normal Hebrew sentence structure.

כתוב literally means written, but in Hebrew it is very commonly used in the sense of:

• is written
• appears in writing
• is stated

Grammatically, it comes from the root כ-ת-ב (to write) and often functions like an adjective or participle.

So here it does not focus on the action of someone writing it, but on the result or state: the number is there in written form.

In a construct chain, the definiteness of the whole phrase is usually shown later in the chain, not necessarily on the first noun.

Here, הרישוי has ה-, and that makes the larger phrase definite:

• לוחית הרישוי = the license plate
• מספר לוחית הרישוי = the license plate number

So Hebrew does not say המספר לוחית הרישוי here.

בתביעה is ב + תביעה:

• ב = in
• תביעה = claim, lawsuit, complaint

So it means in the claim / in the lawsuit / in the complaint, depending on context.

Also, in unpointed Hebrew spelling, בתביעה can represent either:

• be-tvi'ah = in a claim/lawsuit
• ba-tvi'ah = in the claim/lawsuit

The spelling is the same without vowels, so context tells you which one is meant.

Not in this sentence.

Hebrew מספר can sometimes mean a number of / several, but here it clearly means the noun number.

You can tell because:

• it is followed by a noun chain: מספר לוחית הרישוי
• the sentence is talking about a specific item being written somewhere
• כתוב is singular, matching מספר as a singular noun

So here מספר definitely means number.

It is understandable and grammatical, especially in formal or legal-style language.

That said, a native speaker might also say:

• מספר לוחית הרישוי מופיע בתביעה = the license plate number appears in the claim
• מספר לוחית הרישוי מצוין בתביעה = the license plate number is specified in the claim
• מספר לוחית הרישוי נכתב בתביעה = the license plate number was written in the claim

כתוב is fine, but the best choice depends on tone and context.

A common pronunciation would be:

mispar luḥit ha-rishuy katuv ba-tvi'ah

If the meaning is in a claim rather than in the claim, then the beginning of the last word group would sound more like:

be-tvi'ah

So the written form stays the same, but the pronunciation can differ slightly depending on definiteness.