किरायेदार मेरी दोस्त है।

The tenant is my friend.

Breakdown of किरायेदार मेरी दोस्त है।

• होना: to be
• मेरा: my
• दोस्त: friend
• किरायेदार: tenant

Questions & Answers about किरायेदार मेरी दोस्त है।

Why is it मेरी and not मेरा?

Because मेरा / मेरी / मेरे agrees with the noun that follows.

Here, मेरी goes with दोस्त in the sense of female friend. So:

• मेरा दोस्त = my male friend
• मेरी दोस्त = my female friend

This is a very common pattern in Hindi. Even though दोस्त often looks the same for both genders, the possessive helps show whether the friend is male or female.

Does दोस्त itself have a separate feminine form?

Usually, दोस्त can be used for both a male friend and a female friend.

So both of these are possible:

• मेरा दोस्त = my male friend
• मेरी दोस्त = my female friend

Hindi also has more specifically gendered words:

• सहेली = female friend
• मित्र = friend, more formal/literary

So this sentence could also be phrased with सहेली if you want to make the female sense explicit in a different way, but मेरी दोस्त is very natural.

Is किरायेदार masculine or feminine here?

किरायेदार is often treated as a common-gender noun in form, meaning the word itself usually does not change shape for masculine vs feminine.

So:

• वह किरायेदार है can refer to a man or a woman, depending on context.

In this sentence, we understand the tenant is female because she is being identified as मेरी दोस्त with मेरी, which points to a female friend.

So the noun किरायेदार itself does not tell you the gender clearly by its ending, but the rest of the sentence helps.