الفندق عنده ردهة كبيرة.

Exactly. In Levantine Arabic, possession is very often expressed with عند plus a pronoun suffix.

So:

• عنده = he has / it has / at him
• literally, it comes from the idea of at/with him

In this sentence:

• الفندق عنده ردهة كبيرة
• literally: The hotel, at-it, [there is] a big lobby
• natural English: The hotel has a big lobby

This is a very common Arabic way to express possession.

The -ه means him / it.

Here it refers back to الفندق (the hotel).

Since hotel is grammatically masculine singular in Arabic, you use:

• عنده = it has for a masculine noun

If the possessed thing were feminine, you would use:

• عندها = she has / it has for a feminine noun

So the grammar is based on grammatical gender, not biological sex.

Because ردهة is a feminine noun.

In Arabic, adjectives must agree with the noun they describe in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

So:

• ردهة = feminine singular
• therefore كبيرة = feminine singular

If the noun were masculine, you would use كبير instead.

For example:

• فندق كبير = a big hotel
• ردهة كبيرة = a big lobby

Because in Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So Arabic says:

• ردهة كبيرة
• literally: lobby big

This is the normal word order for noun + adjective in Arabic.

Also, the adjective must match the noun in gender, number, and definiteness.

For example:

• ردهة كبيرة = a big lobby
• الردهة الكبيرة = the big lobby

Notice how both words become definite when the noun is definite.

ال is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• فندق = a hotel / hotel
• الفندق = the hotel

In this sentence, الفندق is definite: the hotel.

By contrast, ردهة كبيرة is indefinite:

• ردهة = a lobby
• كبيرة = big

So the whole phrase means the hotel has a big lobby, not the big lobby.

It is understandable, but it sounds a bit formal or bookish.

In everyday Levantine speech, people might more naturally say:

• لوبي = lobby (borrowed from English)
• sometimes صالة depending on context

So while الفندق عنده ردهة كبيرة is correct and clear, in casual speech you may also hear something like:

• الفندق عنده لوبي كبير

That sounds more colloquial to many speakers.

It feels like a mix.

• عنده as has is very natural in Levantine
• ردهة is more formal and closer to Standard Arabic vocabulary

So the structure is very Levantine-friendly, but the word choice is slightly formal.

A more everyday Levantine version might be:

• الفندق عنده لوبي كبير

So learners should know that a sentence can be grammatically natural in dialect while still containing a more formal word.

Yes, and that is also natural.

There is a small nuance:

• الفندق عنده ردهة كبيرة focuses on the hotel has
• الفندق فيه ردهة كبيرة focuses more on there is a big lobby in the hotel

In many situations, both work and the difference is not huge.

So:

• عنده = possession
• فيه = existence/location

Both can sound normal in Levantine depending on what you want to emphasize.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be something like:

• il-fondoq ʿindo radhé kbiire
• or il-funduʔ ʿindo radhe kbiire, depending on region and style

A few helpful notes:

• الفندق often begins with il-
• عنده is usually pronounced ʿindo
• كبيرة is often kbiire in Levantine, with the short vowel in the first syllable reduced

Exact pronunciation varies by country and city, but ʿindo and kbiire are very typical Levantine-style pronunciations.

Because يملك usually means something closer to owns and sounds more formal.

In everyday speech, Arabic much more often uses expressions like:

• عنده = has
• فيه = there is

So for a normal descriptive sentence about a hotel, عنده is the most natural choice.

Using يملك here would sound too formal or too much like legal ownership.

Because عنده refers to الفندق, not to ردهة.

The structure is:

• الفندق = the possessor
• عنده = it has
• ردهة كبيرة = a big lobby

So the pronoun inside عنده must agree with الفندق, which is masculine singular.

The adjective كبيرة, however, agrees with ردهة, which is feminine singular.

That is why you get:

• عنده for الفندق
• كبيرة for ردهة

Each part is agreeing with a different word.