Questions & Answers about उसे मकान मालिक पर शक है।
Why does the sentence start with उसे instead of वह?
Because Hindi often uses a dative experiencer structure for feelings, sensations, and mental states.
So instead of saying something like वह शक करता है in this pattern, Hindi says:
- उसे ... शक है
= To him/her ... there is suspicion
Here, उसे means to him / to her and marks the person who has the feeling or suspicion.
So:
- वह = he/she
- उसे = to him/her
With शक है, Hindi normally uses को-marking on the experiencer:
- मुझे शक है = I suspect / I have doubts
- उसे शक है = he/she suspects / has doubts
- हमें शक है = we suspect
What exactly does उसे mean here?
उसे is the oblique form of वह with को built in.
It can mean:
- to him
- to her
- sometimes that person in context
In this sentence, it does not show gender, so by itself उसे could refer to either a man or a woman.
Compare:
- वह = he / she
- उसको / उसे = to him / to her
Both उसको and उसे are correct. is just the shorter, very common form.