לחצן החירום נמצא מתחת למצלמת האבטחה.

The emergency button is under the security camera.

Breakdown of לחצן החירום נמצא מתחת למצלמת האבטחה.

• מתחת: under
• להימצא: to be located
• מצלמת אבטחה: security camera
• לחצן חירום: emergency button

Questions & Answers about לחצן החירום נמצא מתחת למצלמת האבטחה.

How do you pronounce the sentence?

A common pronunciation is:

Lakh-tsan ha-kheirum nim-tza mitá-khat le-matzlemet ha-avtakha.

A more syllable-by-syllable guide:

• לחצן — lakh-tsan
• החירום — ha-kheirum
• נמצא — nim-tza
• מתחת — mitá-khat
• למצלמת — le-matzlemet
• האבטחה — ha-avtakha

A few sounds English speakers often notice:

• ח is a throaty sound, like the ch in German Bach or Scottish loch
• צ sounds like ts in cats

What does נמצא do here?

נמצא means is located / is situated / is found.

So the sentence is literally something like:

The emergency button is located under the security camera.

In everyday Hebrew, נמצא is very common when giving location.

It agrees with לחצן, which is masculine singular, so the form is נמצא.

If the subject were feminine singular, you would usually get נמצאת.

Why is the word order לחצן החירום נמצא... and not something else?