[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לחצות-את-הכביש-1.m4a” /]לַחֲצוֹת אֶת הַכְּבִישׂ In English, street is the generic term for any thoroughfare, with words such as road, avenue, boulevard for more specific ones. In Hebrew, the generic term is כביש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לחצות-את-הכביש-2.m4a” /] – literally, road. Thus to cross the street is לחצות את הכביש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לחצות-את-הכביש-1.m4a” /]. The word לחצות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לחצות-את-הכביש-3.m4a” /] itself comes from the root ח.צ.י[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לחצות-את-הכביש-4.m4a”…