Бюллетень лежит на столе.

With stress marks, it is:

Бюллете́нь лежи́т на столе́.

A rough English-style approximation is:

byul-lye-TEN' li-ZHEET na sta-LYE

A few notes:

• бюллетень has the stress on the last е
• лежит has the stress on the second syllable
• столе has the stress on the last syllable
• the final ь in бюллетень is not a separate sound; it softens the final н

It can mean bulletin, report, or ballot paper, depending on context.

So this noun is a little broader than a single English word. In many everyday contexts:

• избирательный бюллетень = ballot paper
• информационный бюллетень = bulletin / newsletter

If your translation already gives one meaning, that is the meaning intended here, but it is good to know the word itself can be used in more than one way.

Because бюллетень is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case.

The basic dictionary form is:

• бюллетень

And that is exactly the form used here.

It is also a masculine singular noun, even though it ends in -ь. Not all nouns ending in -ь are feminine.

Лежит is the 3rd person singular present tense of лежать, which means to lie or to be lying.

So the sentence is literally something like:

The bulletin/ballot is lying on the table.

Russian often uses these position verbs where English would often just say is.

Because in Russian, the present tense of быть (to be) is usually not expressed in ordinary sentences like this.

So Russian normally says:

• Бюллетень на столе. = The bulletin is on the table.

not:

• Бюллетень есть на столе.

Using есть here would sound unusual or would add a special meaning such as there exists / there is.

In your sentence, лежит is not just a substitute for is. It adds the idea of physical position: the object is lying on the table.

Yes. That is completely natural Russian.

Compare:

• Бюллетень на столе. = a simple fact: The bulletin is on the table.
• Бюллетень лежит на столе. = more concrete; it emphasizes that it is lying there

So the version with лежит is a bit more visual and specific.

Russian commonly uses verbs of position for objects:

• лежать = to lie
• стоять = to stand
• висеть = to hang

English often uses just be, but Russian often chooses the verb based on how the object is positioned.

For example:

• a paper on a table often лежит
• a bottle on a table often стоит
• a picture on a wall often висит

So лежит sounds natural for something like a sheet, bulletin, or ballot resting flat on the table.

Because на столе expresses location, not movement.

Russian uses different cases after на:

• на столе = on the table where something already is
• на стол = onto the table movement toward the table

So:

• Бюллетень лежит на столе. = The bulletin is lying on the table.
• Положи бюллетень на стол. = Put the bulletin onto the table.

It is the prepositional case singular of стол.

The noun changes like this:

• nominative: стол = table
• prepositional: на столе = on the table

After на when talking about location, Russian usually uses the prepositional case.

Because Russian has no articles.

So бюллетень can mean:

• a bulletin
• the bulletin
• a ballot
• the ballot

The exact meaning depends on context.

That is very normal in Russian, and learners have to get used to understanding definiteness from the situation rather than from a separate word.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible.

Your sentence:

• Бюллетень лежит на столе.

is a neutral way to say it.

But you could also say:

• На столе лежит бюллетень.

This version puts more attention on where it is, and it can sound like you are introducing the object from the location first: On the table lies a bulletin / There is a bulletin on the table.

So the basic meaning stays the same, but the emphasis changes.

The soft sign (ь) does not make a separate sound. Its job is to soften the consonant before it.

So in бюллетень, it makes the final н soft.

This is important for pronunciation and also for grammar, because many Russian nouns have forms that depend on their stem and ending. For example, other case forms of бюллетень include:

• бюллетеня
• бюллетеню
• бюллетенем

So the ь is a real part of the word, even though it is not pronounced as its own vowel or consonant.

The dictionary form is лежать.

From лежит, you can learn that it is:

• present tense
• 3rd person singular
• imperfective

So:

• лежать = to lie, to be lying
• лежит = he/she/it lies, is lying

Because the subject бюллетень is singular, the verb is singular too.

This is a useful pattern to remember:

• книга лежит = the book is lying
• газета лежит = the newspaper is lying
• документы лежат = the documents are lying