כדאי לחצות את הכביש רק במעבר חצייה.

כדאי means advisable, worthwhile, or a good idea. In everyday Hebrew, כדאי + ל + verb often works like a soft should.

So כדאי לחצות... means something like:

• It’s advisable to cross...
• You should cross...
• It’s a good idea to cross...

It gives advice, not a harsh command.

Because לחצות is the infinitive form, meaning to cross.

In Hebrew, after כדאי, you normally use ל + infinitive:

• כדאי ללכת = It’s a good idea to go
• כדאי לחכות = It’s a good idea to wait
• כדאי לחצות = It’s a good idea to cross

So ל־ here is the normal marker for the infinitive.

No. Here את is not the feminine singular you.

In this sentence, את is the direct object marker. It comes before a definite direct object, and it usually is not translated into English.

So:

• לחצות את הכביש = to cross the road

The word את is just marking הכביש as the direct object of לחצות.

Because הכביש is definite: it means the road, not just a road.

A very common Hebrew rule is:

• if the direct object is definite, you usually put את before it.

Compare:

• לחצות כביש = to cross a road
• לחצות את הכביש = to cross the road

So את appears because the object is definite.

הכביש means the road. Hebrew often uses the definite form where English may also use the, especially in instructions or general statements about a situation.

So לחצות את הכביש is a natural way to say to cross the road.

If you said לחצות כביש, that would sound more like to cross a road in a more general, less specific way.

רק means only.

Here it affects במעבר חצייה, so the idea is:

• cross the road only at a crosswalk

Its position matters. In this sentence, רק limits the place where crossing is recommended.

The ב־ is a preposition attached directly to the noun. It usually means in, at, or sometimes on, depending on context.

So:

• מעבר חצייה = a crosswalk
• במעבר חצייה = at/in a crosswalk

In English we write the preposition separately, but in Hebrew it is often attached as a prefix.

מעבר חצייה is the normal Hebrew term for crosswalk or pedestrian crossing.

Literally:

• מעבר = passage / crossing
• חצייה = crossing

Together they form a noun phrase meaning crosswalk. In British English, this is often called a zebra crossing.

Yes. They come from the same Hebrew root, ח־צ־ה, which has to do with crossing.

• לחצות = to cross
• חצייה = crossing

This is very common in Hebrew: words built from the same root are often closely related in meaning.

Because in Hebrew, the verb to be is usually not expressed in the present tense.

So where English says:

• It is advisable to cross...

Hebrew simply says:

• כדאי לחצות...

This is a basic feature of Hebrew grammar, and learners see it all the time.

Grammatically, it is advice, because כדאי is softer than a true command.

It is not as strong as forms like:

• אסור = forbidden
• חייבים = must
• יש לחצות = one must / one should cross

But in context, especially with safety language, it can still sound quite strong: You should cross only at a crosswalk.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

kedai lakhatzot et hakvish rak bema'avar khatsiya

Approximate stress:

• keDAI
• lakhaTZOT
• et haKVISH
• rak
• bema'aVAR
• khatsiYA

The kh sound is like the ch in Bach or loch, not like English k.