בלי תור
“בלי תור” (бли тор) — without an appointment in Hebrew. Phrase, level A1. An appointment at an Israeli office is the tor — the queue — you know. Admission without it is bli tor: you come — and you get in. In a live sentence: “הרופא מקבל גם בלי תור.” — The doctor sees patients without an appointment too. Written with the characters ב, ל, י, ת, ו, ר. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | בלי תור |
| Read in Latin letters | бли тор |
| Translation | without an appointment |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
An appointment at an Israeli office is the tor — the queue — you know. Admission without it is bli tor: you come — and you get in
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.
- הרופא מקבל גם בלי תור.ха-рофе мекабель гам бли тор.The doctor sees patients without an appointment too.
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 “without an appointment” in Hebrew?
«בלי תור», read “бли тор”. In a live sentence: “הרופא מקבל גם בלי תור.” — The doctor sees patients without an appointment too. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ב, ל, י, ת, ו, ר.
How is “בלי תור” written in Latin letters?
бли тор. 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?
An appointment at an Israeli office is the tor — the queue — you know. Admission without it is bli tor: you come — and you get in. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.