התוצאה לא מושלמת.

A common transliteration is ha-totza'ah lo mushlemet.

A rough English-friendly pronunciation guide is:

• הַתּוֹצָאָה → ha-to-tsa-AH
• לֹא → lo
• מֻשְׁלֶמֶת → moosh-LE-met

A few notes:

• תוצאה ends with a vowel sound like -ah
• מושלמת is stressed on LE
• In modern Hebrew, the little pause suggested by א in תוצאה is often very weak or not clearly heard

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

So Hebrew says, literally:

• התוצאה = the result
• לא = not
• מושלמת = perfect (feminine)

So the structure is basically The result not perfect.

This is completely normal Hebrew. In the past or future, Hebrew does use forms of to be, but in simple present-tense sentences like this, it is usually omitted.

The ה at the beginning is the Hebrew definite article, meaning the.

• תוצאה = result / a result
• התוצאה = the result

Unlike English, Hebrew usually attaches the directly to the word instead of writing it as a separate word.

So ה + תוצאה = התוצאה.

Because תוצאה is a feminine singular noun, and Hebrew adjectives must agree with the noun in gender and number.

So:

• masculine singular: מושלם
• feminine singular: מושלמת
• masculine plural: מושלמים
• feminine plural: מושלמות

Since התוצאה is feminine singular, the correct form is מושלמת.

One clue is the ending -ה, which very often marks a feminine noun in Hebrew.

So תוצאה is feminine, and that affects adjective agreement.

That said, not every noun ending in -ה is feminine, and not every feminine noun ends in -ה, so you still need to learn noun gender as part of the word. But in this case, תוצאה is definitely feminine.

לא is the standard Hebrew word for not.

In this sentence, it comes before the adjective phrase:

• התוצאה מושלמת = The result is perfect
• התוצאה לא מושלמת = The result is not perfect

Hebrew does not need anything like English do/does not here. You simply place לא before what is being negated.

Yes. התוצאה אינה מושלמת is also correct.

The difference is mostly one of style:

• התוצאה לא מושלמת = the most common, natural everyday phrasing
• התוצאה אינה מושלמת = more formal, more written, sometimes more careful or emphatic

Here אינה is the feminine singular form that matches התוצאה.

So both are correct, but לא is usually the safer everyday choice.

With ניקוד, it is:

הַתּוֹצָאָה לֹא מֻשְׁלֶמֶת.

A learner may notice two things:

• the ה of the definite article is written as הַ
• the ת after it gets a dagesh: תּ

In everyday modern Hebrew, vowel marks are usually omitted, so you will normally see:

התוצאה לא מושלמת.

This is the most neutral and natural order:

התוצאה לא מושלמת.

That is:

subject + negation + adjective

Hebrew can sometimes change word order for emphasis or in literary style, but for a normal statement, this order is best.

So if you are learning to produce natural Hebrew, התוצאה לא מושלמת is the form to remember.

Yes, but it would not mean exactly the same thing.

• התוצאה לא מושלמת = The result is not perfect
• תוצאה לא מושלמת = an imperfect result or a result that is not perfect

Without ה, the noun is indefinite, so it sounds less like a full statement about a specific result and more like a general description or noun phrase.

So if you mean the result, keep the ה.

לא מושלמת is very natural Hebrew.

Hebrew does have other adjectives depending on nuance, but לא מושלמת is simple, common, and neutral. It often matches everyday English not perfect very well.

So even if English sometimes prefers a single word like imperfect, Hebrew often naturally uses לא + adjective instead.

The adjective would have to agree in number as well as gender.

For example:

• התוצאה לא מושלמת = The result is not perfect
• התוצאות לא מושלמות = The results are not perfect

Notice:

• התוצאה → singular
• התוצאות → plural
• מושלמת → feminine singular
• מושלמות → feminine plural

This is a very important Hebrew pattern: adjectives must match the noun they describe.