בלי קרח
“בלי קרח” (бли керах) — no ice in Hebrew. Phrase, level A1. Bli is the short frequent preposition without; kerach is ice. Israel loves ice in the glass, but not everyone does. In a live sentence: “מים בלי קרח, בבקשה.” — Water with no ice, please. Written with the characters ב, ל, י, ק, ר, ח. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | בלי קרח |
| Read in Latin letters | бли керах |
| Translation | no ice |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Bli is the short frequent preposition without; kerach is ice. Israel loves ice in the glass, but not everyone does
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- מים בלי קרח, בבקשה.маим бли керах, бевакаша.Water with no ice, please.
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “no ice” in Hebrew?
«בלי קרח», read “бли керах”. In a live sentence: “מים בלי קרח, בבקשה.” — Water with no ice, please. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ב, ל, י, ק, ר, ח.
How is “בלי קרח” written in Latin letters?
бли керах. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Bli is the short frequent preposition without; kerach is ice. Israel loves ice in the glass, but not everyone does. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.