בעל החשבון מחכה לתיקון החשבון.

Yes. בעל can mean several related things, including owner, master, and in some contexts husband.

Here, because it is followed by החשבון and the whole phrase is בעל החשבון, it clearly means the owner of the account or the account holder, not the husband of the account.

Context is what tells you which meaning is intended.

Because this is a construct phrase (called סמיכות in Hebrew).

In a construct phrase:

• the first noun is in a special linked form
• the second noun tells you whether the whole phrase is definite

So:

• בעל חשבון = an account owner / owner of an account
• בעל החשבון = the account owner / owner of the account

Even without ה on בעל, the whole phrase is definite because החשבון is definite.

The same thing happens later in the sentence with תיקון החשבון.

חשבון is a flexible word in Hebrew. Depending on context, it can mean:

• account
• bill/check
• calculation
• sometimes even an issue to settle

So in this sentence, the exact meaning depends on the situation you already know from context.

That is why the sentence may sound slightly ambiguous by itself to a learner: the same word חשבון appears twice, but Hebrew allows that because the context usually makes the meaning clear.

Because the sentence is talking about:

• the owner/holder of the account and
• the correction/repair of that account

So the first החשבון belongs to בעל:

• בעל החשבון = the account holder

The second החשבון belongs to תיקון:

• תיקון החשבון = the correction/repair of the account

Even though it is the same noun, it plays two different grammatical roles in the sentence.

Because the verb לחכות normally takes the preposition ל־ when it means to wait for.

So Hebrew says:

• מחכה ל... = waiting for...

Examples:

• אני מחכה לאוטובוס = I’m waiting for the bus
• היא מחכה לתשובה = She is waiting for an answer

So here:

• מחכה לתיקון החשבון = is waiting for the correction/repair of the account

Without ל־, it would sound wrong in standard Hebrew.

No. לתיקון is not an infinitive.

It is:

• ל־ = the preposition for/to
• תיקון = a noun meaning correction, repair, or fixing

So לתיקון means for correction / for the correction of...

If this were an infinitive, you would expect לתקן, which means to fix / to correct.

Compare:

• מחכה לתיקון החשבון = waiting for the correction of the account
• רוצה לתקן את החשבון = wants to correct the account

That is an important distinction:

• תיקון = noun
• לתקן = infinitive verb

Because תיקון is a noun, not a verb.

The particle את is used before a definite direct object of a verb. But here there is no finite verb fix/correct in that part of the sentence. Instead, there is the noun תיקון.

So Hebrew builds it as a noun phrase:

• תיקון החשבון = the correction of the account

Not:

• תיקון את החשבון ✗

If you used the verb לתקן, then את would be possible:

• לתקן את החשבון = to correct the account

מחכה is the present-tense form of לחכות.

In this sentence it agrees with בעל החשבון, which is singular masculine, so the meaning is is waiting or waits.

A useful thing to remember is that Hebrew present tense often functions like English:

• is waiting
• waits

depending on context.

Because it has the same pattern as בעל החשבון:

• first noun: תיקון = correction/repair
• second noun: החשבון = the account

Together:

• תיקון החשבון = the correction of the account

Again, the first noun does not take ה, but the whole phrase is definite because the second noun is definite.

So:

• תיקון חשבון = a correction of an account
• תיקון החשבון = the correction of the account

Yes, it is grammatical and understandable, but it sounds somewhat formal or written because it uses the noun תיקון instead of a more everyday verbal clause.

In more casual speech, Hebrew speakers might say something like:

• בעל החשבון מחכה שיתקנו את החשבון
• בעל החשבון מחכה שיסדרו את החשבון

Those feel a bit more conversational.

So the original sentence is fine, but it has a slightly more formal or administrative tone.

Sometimes yes, but repeating the noun is often clearer.

For example, a pronoun-like ending could create a phrase such as לתיקונו, meaning roughly for its correction. But that can sound more formal, and it may be less clear if there is more than one masculine noun around.

So לתיקון החשבון is explicit and easy to understand.

The structure is:

• בעל החשבון = subject
• מחכה = verb
• לתיקון החשבון = prepositional phrase completing the verb

So the pattern is basically:

[subject] + [verb] + [prepositional phrase]

That is a very normal Hebrew sentence pattern.