Не нарушай правила дорожного движения, даже если спешишь.

Don’t break the traffic rules, even if you’re in a hurry.

Breakdown of Не нарушай правила дорожного движения, даже если спешишь.

• не: not
• если: if
• правило: the rule
• дорожный: road
• движение: the traffic
• даже: even
• спешить: to hurry
• нарушать: to break/violate

Questions & Answers about Не нарушай правила дорожного движения, даже если спешишь.

Why is не нарушай used here—what form is it?

Не нарушай is the negative imperative (a command/prohibition) in the 2nd person singular.

• нарушай = imperative of нарушать (to violate/break)
• не + imperative = Don’t …
  So it means Don’t break/violate …

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Is this addressing you (singular) or you (plural/formal)?

It’s addressing you (singular informal): не нарушай.
For you (plural/formal) it would be: Не нарушайте правила дорожного движения…

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Why is it нарушай (imperfective) and not нарушь (perfective)?

Russian typically uses the imperfective imperative for general prohibitions: Don’t do X (in general / as a rule) → не нарушай.
A perfective negative imperative can sound more like don’t do it even once / don’t commit that act and is less common in everyday neutral advice. In this context (traffic rules), the general “don’t break” fits best.

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What case is правила in, and why?

правила is accusative plural (and it looks the same as nominative plural for inanimate nouns).
The verb нарушать usually takes a direct object in the accusative:

• нарушать (что?) правила = to violate (what?) rules

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Why is it правила дорожного движения—what case is дорожного движения?

дорожного движения is genitive singular, used here to specify which rules:

• правила (чего?) дорожного движения = rules of road traffic / traffic rules
  движение (movement/traffic) is neuter; genitive singular is движения. дорожного agrees with движения in gender/number/case.

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What does дорожного mean exactly, and where does it come from?

дорожного is the genitive singular form of the adjective дорожный (road / relating to roads), from дорога (road).
So дорожное движение literally means road traffic, and правила дорожного движения is the standard phrase for traffic rules.

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Could I also say не нарушай ПДД? What is ПДД?

Yes. ПДД is an abbreviation for Правила дорожного движения (traffic rules).
You might see:

• Не нарушай ПДД… (informal singular)
• Не нарушайте ПДД… (formal/plural)

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What does даже если mean, and how is it different from just если?

если = if.
даже если = even if (it emphasizes that the instruction still holds under that condition).
So: Don’t break traffic rules, even if you’re in a hurry.

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Why is спешишь used, and what form is it?

спешишь is the present tense, 2nd person singular form of спешить (to be in a hurry):

• (ты) спешишь = you’re in a hurry / you’re rushing
  It matches the “you” implied by не нарушай.

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Could спешишь be replaced with торопишься? Is there a difference?

Yes, даже если торопишься is very natural too.

• спешить often means to hurry / to be in a rush (slightly more “bookish” or neutral)
• торопиться is very common colloquially and can sound more everyday
  In this sentence, both work: the meaning is essentially the same.

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Why is there a comma before даже если?

Because даже если спешишь introduces a subordinate clause (если-clause). Russian normally separates subordinate clauses with a comma:
Не нарушай …, даже если спешишь.

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Is the word order flexible here? Could it be Даже если спешишь, не нарушай…?

Yes, it’s flexible. You can front the condition for emphasis:

• Даже если спешишь, не нарушай правила дорожного движения.
  Both are correct; the original version puts the main instruction first.

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Does Russian need an explicit ты in даже если спешишь?

No. Russian often omits subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows the person/number.
(ты) спешишь is understood from -ишь (2nd person singular). Adding ты is possible but usually adds emphasis or contrast.