यह कपड़ा मखमल का है।

A very literal breakdown is:

• यह = this
• कपड़ा = cloth / fabric / garment
• मखमल = velvet
• का = of
• है = is

So the structure is roughly:

This cloth velvet of is.

Natural English: This cloth is velvet or This cloth is made of velvet.

Hindi often uses an X का है pattern where English would use is made of X or is of X.

कपड़ा is usually transliterated as kapṛā.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• क = k
• प = p
• ड़ा = a retroflex flap sound, written ṛā

The tricky part is ड़. It is not a plain English d. It sounds somewhat like the quick tt/dd sound in American English butter for many speakers, but produced with the tongue curled back a bit.

So कपड़ा sounds roughly like:

kup-raa / कप-ड़ा

Also note:

• the final ा gives a long aa sound
• the first vowel is a short a, like uh or u in many English approximations

यह means this.

In careful or traditional pronunciation, it is often represented as yah.
In everyday speech, many speakers say something closer to yeh.

So both of these are useful to know:

• dictionary-style: yah
• very common spoken form: yeh

Also, in casual spoken Hindi, people often use ये where a textbook might give यह, so you may hear:

ये कपड़ा मखमल का है

with the same meaning: This cloth is velvet.

कपड़ा is a singular noun. Depending on context, it can mean:

• cloth
• fabric
• sometimes a garment / article of clothing

In this sentence, the most natural meaning is cloth/fabric.

Important distinction:

• कपड़ा = a piece of cloth / fabric / a garment
• कपड़े = clothes (plural), clothing items

So here it does not mean clothes in the general plural sense.

मखमल means velvet.

Here it is a noun, specifically the name of a material.

So the sentence is talking about what material the cloth is made of.

Hindi can also make adjectives from material words in some contexts, but in this sentence मखमल is being used as the material noun velvet.

This is one of the most important grammar points in the sentence.

In Hindi, का / की / के often mark a relationship like of.
Here, मखमल का means something like of velvet.

So:

• मखमल का कपड़ा = cloth of velvet / velvet cloth
• यह कपड़ा मखमल का है = this cloth is of velvet / this cloth is made of velvet

English usually prefers made of, but Hindi commonly uses this X का structure with materials.

So the sentence is not literally saying possession in the English sense. It is expressing material/composition.

Because का / की / के agree with the noun being described, not with मखमल.

Here, the thing being described is कपड़ा, and कपड़ा is:

• masculine
• singular

So the correct form is का.

Compare:

• यह कपड़ा मखमल का है।
  कपड़ा is masculine singular → का

• यह साड़ी मखमल की है।
  साड़ी is feminine singular → की

• ये कपड़े मखमल के हैं।
  कपड़े is masculine plural → के

This is a very common pattern in Hindi.

Yes, absolutely.

यह कपड़ा मखमल से बना है means:

This cloth is made of velvet.

This version is a bit more explicit because:

• से = from / with
• बना है = is made

So:

• मखमल का है = is of velvet / is velvet
• मखमल से बना है = is made of velvet

Both are correct. The version with से बना है feels more directly parallel to English made of.

है is the singular form of to be in the present tense.

Since कपड़ा is singular, the sentence uses है:

• यह कपड़ा मखमल का है।
  = This cloth is velvet.

If the subject were plural, you would normally use हैं:

• ये कपड़े मखमल के हैं।
  = These clothes are of velvet.

So the verb changes according to whether the subject is singular or plural.

The given order is natural and standard:

• यह कपड़ा मखमल का है।

A very common related order is to put the material phrase directly before the noun:

• यह मखमल का कपड़ा है।

This also means This is velvet cloth or This cloth is made of velvet.

Both are natural, but the emphasis is a little different:

• यह कपड़ा मखमल का है = talking about this cloth, then saying what it is made of
• यह मखमल का कपड़ा है = more like this is velvet cloth

So yes, Hindi allows some flexibility, but the original sentence is completely normal.

Because Hindi does not have articles exactly like English a/an/the.

So कपड़ा can mean:

• a cloth
• the cloth
• just cloth

The exact meaning depends on context.

That is why यह कपड़ा मखमल का है can be translated naturally in different ways depending on the situation:

• This cloth is velvet
• This fabric is velvet
• This piece of cloth is made of velvet

Hindi leaves that article choice to context much more than English does.