היא יושבת על הספה, והטלפון שלה על השולחן לידה.

In Modern Hebrew, יושבת is the present-tense form, and it already covers what English expresses as sits or is sitting, depending on context.

So:

• היא יושבת = she sits / she is sitting

Hebrew present-tense forms are built like adjectives/participles and agree with gender and number:

• יושב = masculine singular
• יושבת = feminine singular
• יושבים = masculine plural
• יושבות = feminine plural

Because the subject is היא (she), the sentence uses the feminine singular form יושבת.

In the present tense, Hebrew usually does not use a separate word for am / is / are.

So instead of saying something literally like she is sitting with a separate verb is, Hebrew simply says:

• היא יושבת = She is sitting
• הטלפון שלה על השולחן = Her phone is on the table

This is especially common in sentences that describe location, identity, or state.

Compare:

• הוא בבית = He is at home
• הספר על השולחן = The book is on the table

But in past and future, Hebrew does use normal verb forms.

This is a very common Hebrew sentence pattern called a nominal sentence in the present tense.

The structure is:

• subject + location/state
• הטלפון שלה על השולחן
• literally: her phone on the table
• natural English: her phone is on the table

Hebrew does not need to insert is here. The meaning is still complete and natural.

Hebrew often shows possession by using:

• noun + possessive pronoun

So:

• הטלפון = the phone
• שלה = hers / of her

Together:

• הטלפון שלה = her phone
• literally: the phone of hers

This is the most common everyday spoken way to say possession in Modern Hebrew.

Other examples:

• הבית שלו = his house
• הספר שלי = my book
• החברים שלנו = our friends

Hebrew does have older or more formal possessive forms like טלפונה meaning her phone, but in modern everyday speech they are much less common.

Most speakers strongly prefer:

• הטלפון שלה

instead of:

• טלפונה

So for a learner, הטלפון שלה is the most useful and natural form to learn first.

לידה means next to her or beside her.

It is built from:

• ליד = next to / beside
• -ה = her

So:

• לידה = next to her

This kind of suffix is very common with prepositions in Hebrew.

Similar forms:

• לידי = next to me
• לידך = next to you
• לידו = next to him
• לידם = next to them

It refers to her.

The ending -ה in לידה means her, so the phrase means:

• on the table next to her

It does not mean the table is next to something feminine mentioned earlier. The pronoun is built directly into the word.

So the idea is:

• she is sitting on the couch
• her phone is on the table
• that table is beside her

In Hebrew, the word for and is usually the single letter ו attached to the beginning of the next word.

So:

• ו + הטלפון = והטלפון
• and the phone

This is completely normal Hebrew spelling. Hebrew often attaches small function words directly to the following word.

Examples:

• והספר = and the book
• ובבית = and in the house
• וכתב = and wrote

The prefix ה is the Hebrew definite article, meaning the.

So:

• ספה = a couch / couch

• הספה = the couch

• טלפון = a phone / phone

• הטלפון = the phone

• שולחן = a table / table
• השולחן = the table

Unlike English, Hebrew adds the as a prefix to the noun instead of using a separate word.

על usually means on.

So:

• על הספה = on the couch
• על השולחן = on the table

It is the same preposition in both places. Hebrew uses על very broadly, much like English on.

The most natural and standard phrasing here is:

• יושבת על הספה = sitting on the couch

Using על is what you would normally expect for sitting on a sofa, chair, bench, and so on.

In some cases learners may hear ב in other location expressions, but for furniture that someone sits on, על is the usual and safest choice.

Hebrew often includes the subject pronoun for clarity or emphasis, even when the verb form already tells you the gender and number.

So:

• יושבת על הספה could mean she is sitting on the couch, if the context is clear
• היא יושבת על הספה explicitly says she is sitting on the couch

Including היא makes the sentence clearer, especially for learners or when introducing a new subject.

The sentence has two parts:

1. היא יושבת על הספה

   • she + sitting + on the couch

2. והטלפון שלה על השולחן לידה

   • and her phone + on the table next to her

In English, this becomes:

• She is sitting on the couch, and her phone is on the table next to her.

Hebrew word order is often flexible, but this order is very natural:

• subject
• description/action/location

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• Hi yoshevet al hasapa, veha-telefon shela al hashulchan leyada.

A few notes:

• היא = hi
• יושבת = yoshevet
• הספה = hasapa
• והטלפון = veha-telefon
• שלה = shela
• השולחן = hashulchan
• לידה = leyada

Pronunciation can vary slightly by speaker, but this will be understood well.

In this sentence, יושבת clearly means is sitting.

The verb from the root י-ש-ב can sometimes have broader uses in Hebrew, depending on context, including ideas related to residing or being seated, but here the phrase יושבת על הספה very clearly means physically sitting on the couch.

So for this sentence, you should understand it simply as:

• She is sitting on the couch.

The comma separates the two connected clauses:

• היא יושבת על הספה
• והטלפון שלה על השולחן לידה

In English, this is similar to:

• She is sitting on the couch, and her phone is on the table next to her.

The comma helps readability, especially because the sentence contains two full ideas joined by ו (and).