המשכיר רוצה ניכוי.

A natural pronunciation is ha-maskír rotzé nikúy.

If you add vowel marks, it would be approximately הַמַּשְׂכִּיר רוֹצֶה נִיכּוּי.

A few pronunciation notes:

• המשכיר = ha-maskír
• רוצה here is rotzé, not rotzá
• ניכוי = nikúy

The stress is on the last syllable of all three words.

המשכיר means the person who rents something out, so in context it often means the landlord or the lessor.

It comes from the verb להשכיר, meaning to rent out / to lease out.

So:

• משכיר = someone who rents out
• שוכר = someone who rents from someone else, meaning tenant / renter

That distinction is important, because English learners often mix up landlord and tenant when they first meet these Hebrew words.

The ה is the Hebrew definite article, equivalent to English the.

So:

• משכיר = a landlord / a lessor
• המשכיר = the landlord / the lessor

Hebrew adds ה directly to the beginning of the noun instead of using a separate word like English the.

Hebrew normally has no indefinite article, so there is no separate word for a or an.

That means:

• ניכוי can mean a deduction
• הניכוי means the deduction

So המשכיר רוצה ניכוי naturally means the landlord wants a deduction, even though there is no separate word for a.

Because את is used only before a definite direct object.

Here, ניכוי is indefinite, meaning a deduction, not the deduction, so there is no את.

Compare:

• המשכיר רוצה ניכוי = the landlord wants a deduction
• המשכיר רוצה את הניכוי = the landlord wants the deduction

This is a very common point for English speakers, because English does not mark definite direct objects this way.

Because the subject המשכיר is masculine singular.

In unpointed Hebrew, רוצה can represent:

• rotzé = masculine singular
• rotzá = feminine singular

The spelling is the same, so the context tells you which one it is.

Here the subject is המשכיר, which is masculine, so the correct pronunciation is rotzé.

If the subject were feminine, you would have:

• המשכירה רוצה ניכוי
• pronounced ha-maskirá rotzá nikúy

It is originally a participle, but here it is being used as a noun.

This is very common in Hebrew. Many present-tense participles can also function like nouns.

So משכיר can mean:

• renting out as a verb-like participle in some contexts
• landlord / lessor as a noun in other contexts

In this sentence, it clearly functions as a noun: the landlord.

ניכוי is a verbal noun, meaning deduction, withholding, or offset, depending on context.

It is related to the verb לנכות, meaning to deduct.

So the connection is roughly:

• לנכות = to deduct
• ניכוי = deduction

This word is somewhat formal or administrative. In everyday speech, if you mean something like a simple discount, Hebrew might use a different word such as הנחה.

It can do both.

With a noun:

• רוצה ניכוי = wants a deduction

With an infinitive:

• רוצה לנכות = wants to deduct

Both are grammatical, but they mean slightly different things:

• רוצה ניכוי focuses on the thing wanted
• רוצה לנכות focuses on the action of deducting

English speakers often expect wants to..., but Hebrew also very naturally allows wants + noun.

Yes. המשכיר רוצה ניכוי follows a very normal subject–verb–object order:

• המשכיר = subject
• רוצה = verb
• ניכוי = object

Hebrew word order can be flexible, but this version is straightforward and neutral.

A different order is sometimes possible for emphasis, but for a basic sentence, this is the most natural arrangement.

You would change both the subject and the verb so they agree.

Examples:

• המשכירה רוצה ניכוי = the female landlord wants a deduction
• המשכירים רוצים ניכוי = the landlords want a deduction
• המשכירות רוצות ניכוי = the female landlords want a deduction

This is a good example of Hebrew agreement:

• the subject changes for gender and number
• the present-tense verb changes to match it