אם אין תור ארוך, נמשיך ישר עד הבנק.

Here אם means if.

So the sentence starts with a condition:

• אם אין תור ארוך = If there isn’t a long line
• נמשיך ישר עד הבנק = we’ll continue straight to the bank

A learner should also know that אם can sometimes mean whether in other sentences, but here it is clearly the conditional if.

In Hebrew, אין is the normal way to say there is no / there isn’t / there aren’t.

So:

• אין תור ארוך = there is no long line / there isn’t a long line

By contrast, לא is used mainly to negate verbs:

• לא נמשיך = we will not continue

So a very important distinction is:

• אין = negates existence
• לא = negates an action or verb

Hebrew often expresses existence without a word exactly like English there is/there are.

For example:

• יש תור = There is a line
• אין תור = There is no line

So יש and אין do the job that English often expresses with there is and there isn’t.

In this sentence:

• אין תור ארוך literally feels like there-is-not long-line

That is completely normal Hebrew.

תור can mean more than one thing depending on context.

Common meanings include:

• line / queue
• turn

In this sentence, it clearly means line or queue:

• אין תור ארוך = there isn’t a long line

So this is talking about waiting in line at the bank, not taking turns.

Because it describes תור, and adjectives in Hebrew usually agree with the noun in gender and number.

• תור is masculine singular
• so the adjective is ארוך = masculine singular long

Compare:

• תור ארוך = a long line
• שורה ארוכה = a long row/line

Even though English line is just line, Hebrew nouns have grammatical gender, and adjectives must match them.

Because the sentence means a long line, not the long line.

• תור ארוך = a long line
• התור הארוך = the long line

So:

• אם אין תור ארוך = If there isn’t a long line not
• If the long line doesn’t exist

Hebrew often leaves a noun indefinite with no article at all.

נמשיך means we will continue or we will keep going.

It comes from the verb להמשיך = to continue.

The form נמשיך is:

• future tense
• first person plural
• so it means we will continue

That is why Hebrew does not need a separate word for we here.

Because Hebrew verbs often already include the subject.

• נמשיך by itself already means we will continue

So אנחנו is optional unless the speaker wants emphasis or contrast.

For example:

• נמשיך ישר עד הבנק = We’ll continue straight to the bank
• אנחנו נמשיך ישר עד הבנק = We will continue straight to the bank
  This can sound more emphatic.

This is very different from English, where the pronoun is usually required.

Because the sentence is talking about a possible future result:

• If there isn’t a long line, we’ll continue...

In Hebrew, this is very natural:

• the if-clause can use present-style existential wording like אין
• the result clause uses the future: נמשיך

So the logic is:

• condition: if there isn’t...
• result: we will continue...

That matches English quite well.

Here ישר means straight or straight ahead.

So:

• נמשיך ישר = we’ll continue straight

It refers to direction, not honesty or morality.

Hebrew ישר can also mean straight in other senses, but in travel/directions it very often means:

• straight
• straight ahead
• directly forward

עד basically means until / up to / as far as.

So:

• עד הבנק = up to the bank / as far as the bank

In natural English, that is often translated simply as to the bank, especially in directions.

So נמשיך ישר עד הבנק is something like:

• we’ll continue straight up to the bank
• more naturally: we’ll continue straight to the bank

This gives a sense of continuing along the route until reaching that point.

Because the sentence treats them differently:

• תור ארוך = an indefinite thing, a long line
• הבנק = a specific place, the bank

So the speaker probably has a particular bank in mind, but not a particular line.

Notice how Hebrew marks definiteness with ה־:

• בנק = a bank
• הבנק = the bank

Yes, it helps separate the condition from the main clause:

• אם אין תור ארוך, נמשיך ישר עד הבנק.

That is similar to English:

• If there isn’t a long line, we’ll continue straight to the bank.

In Hebrew writing, punctuation is often similar to English here. The comma makes the sentence easier to read, though in casual writing people are not always perfectly consistent.

The structure is:

• אם אין תור ארוך = conditional clause
• נמשיך ישר עד הבנק = main clause

More literally:

• If there-is-not long line, we-will-continue straight up-to the-bank

So the sentence follows a very common Hebrew pattern:

1. אם
   • condition
2. main result clause

This word order is straightforward and very common in everyday Hebrew.