मेरे पास दवा नहीं है, और मैं अस्पताल जा रही हूँ।

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Breakdown of मेरे पास दवा नहीं है, और मैं अस्पताल जा रही हूँ।

• होना: to be
• जाना: to go
• नहीं: not

Questions & Answers about मेरे पास दवा नहीं है, और मैं अस्पताल जा रही हूँ।

Why does मेरे पास दवा नहीं है mean I don’t have medicine? There’s no verb that looks like have.

Hindi usually does not use a direct verb like English have for possession.

Instead, it often uses this pattern:

[person] + पास + [thing] + है / नहीं है

So:

• मेरे पास = with me / in my possession
• दवा = medicine
• नहीं है = is not

Literally, the clause is something like:

With me, medicine is not.

Natural English: I don’t have medicine.

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Why is it मेरे पास, not मैं पास?

With पास, Hindi uses the possessive-type form of the pronoun, not the basic subject form.

So you get:

• मेरे पास = with me / I have
• तुम्हारे पास = with you / you have
• उसके पास = with him/her / he/she has

So मैं is the subject form (I), but मेरे पास is the form used in this possession structure. It’s best to learn मेरे पास as a set phrase.

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What exactly does पास mean here?

पास literally means near, , or in a possession sense.