मकान मालिक के पास हल है।

मकान मालिक is a common compound expression meaning landlord.

• मकान = house, building, residence
• मालिक = owner

So literally it is house owner, which becomes landlord in natural English.

Hindi often combines nouns like this without adding a word like of. So instead of always saying मकान का मालिक (owner of the house), Hindi very often uses the shorter compound मकान मालिक.

Hindi usually does not use a direct verb equivalent to English to have.

Instead, possession is commonly expressed with this pattern:

X के पास Y है = X has Y

So:

• मकान मालिक के पास = with the landlord / in the landlord’s possession
• हल है = there is a solution / plough

Together, the structure means The landlord has a solution/plough.

A very literal way to think of it is:

Near/with the landlord, there is a solution/plough.

That is the normal Hindi way to say has in many situations.

Because के पास works as a fixed grammatical expression.

Even though का / की / के often show possession, in this pattern you should learn के पास as one unit meaning:

• with
• in the possession of
• sometimes near

So you say:

• राम के पास
• सीता ke पास
• लड़की के पास
• मकान मालिक के पास

Notice that it stays के पास even when the possessor is singular or feminine. Here के is not simply a plural marker.

है is the singular form of to be.

In this kind of possession sentence, the verb usually agrees with the thing being possessed, not with the possessor.

Here the possessed thing is हल, which is singular, so Hindi uses है.

Compare:

• मकान मालिक के पास हल है। = The landlord has a solution/plough.
• मकान मालिक के पास दो हल हैं। = The landlord has two solutions/ploughs.

So:

• singular possessed thing → है
• plural possessed thing → हैं

It actually is in the form required before a postposition, but for this noun the form looks the same.

In Hindi, nouns usually take an oblique form before postpositions like के, में, से, etc. Some nouns visibly change in the oblique form, but some do not.

मालिक is one of the nouns whose direct and oblique singular forms look the same, so you do not see any visible change.

That is why you get:

• direct: मालिक
• before a postposition: still मालिक

So मकान मालिक के पास is completely normal.

A close breakdown is:

• मकान मालिक = landlord
• के पास = with / in the possession of
• हल = solution / plough
• है = is

So the literal structure is something like:

With the landlord, a solution/plough is.

That sounds unnatural in English, but it helps explain how Hindi builds the meaning.

Yes. हल commonly has more than one meaning, including:

• solution (to a problem, question, puzzle)
• plough (the farming tool)

The intended meaning depends on context. Since the learner has already been shown the meaning, that is the one to use here. But it is useful to know that the word itself can be ambiguous when seen by itself.

Yes, you could say मकान का मालिक, and it would mean the owner of the house.

But there is a difference in feel:

• मकान मालिक = a common set expression meaning landlord
• मकान का मालिक = a more literal phrase meaning owner of the house

In many contexts they can refer to the same person, but मकान मालिक is the more natural everyday term for landlord.

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

So a sentence like this can often be translated in more than one natural English way depending on context:

• The landlord has a solution.
• The landlord has the solution.
• A landlord has a solution.

English requires an article, but Hindi often leaves that information to context.

Yes.

के पास can mean:

• with / in the possession of
• near / close to

Examples:

• मेरे पास पैसा है। = I have money.
• स्कूल के पास बैंक है। = There is a bank near the school.

So in your sentence, the meaning comes from the whole pattern:

मकान मालिक के पास हल है
= the landlord possesses the solution/plough

not merely there is a solution near the landlord, unless the context strongly points that way.

The के पास ... है part stays the same pattern, but the possessor changes.

Examples:

• मकान मालकिन के पास हल है। = The landlady has a solution/plough.
• उसके पास हल है। = He/She has a solution/plough.
• मेरे पास हल है। = I have a solution/plough.
• उनके पास हल है। = They have / He has / She has (respectfully) a solution/plough.

So once you learn the pattern X के पास Y है, you can use it with many different possessors.