כרטיס אשראי
“כרטיס אשראי” (картис ашрай) — bank card in Hebrew. Noun, level A1. Literally "the card of credit". In Israel people pay with it even for chewing gum — cash is truly rarely needed there. In a live sentence: “אפשר בכרטיס אשראי?” — Can I pay by credit card? Written with the characters כ, ר, ט, י, ס, א, ש, ר, א, י. A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | כרטיס אשראי |
| Read in Latin letters | картис ашрай |
| Translation | bank card |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the card of credit". In Israel people pay with it even for chewing gum — cash is truly rarely needed there
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.
- אפשר בכרטיס אשראי?эфшар бэ-картис ашрай?Can I pay by credit card?
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 “bank card” in Hebrew?
«כרטיס אשראי», read “картис ашрай”. In a live sentence: “אפשר בכרטיס אשראי?” — Can I pay by credit card? Noun, level A1; written with the characters כ, ר, ט, י, ס, א, ש, ר, א, י.
How is “כרטיס אשראי” written in Latin letters?
картис ашрай. 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?
Literally "the card of credit". In Israel people pay with it even for chewing gum — cash is truly rarely needed there. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.