Pemilik rumah memulangkan deposit.

It follows the common Malay pattern Subject + Verb + Object.

• Pemilik rumah = subject
• memulangkan = verb
• deposit = object

So the structure is very similar to English The landlord returns the deposit.

Literally, pemilik rumah means owner of the house or homeowner.

• pemilik = owner
• rumah = house, home

In context, English may translate it as landlord if this is about renting. But the Malay phrase itself focuses on ownership, not specifically the legal role of landlord.

In Malay, the main noun usually comes first, and the word after it describes or narrows it.

So:

• pemilik rumah = owner of the house
• not rumah pemilik for this meaning

This is a very common pattern in Malay noun phrases.

Because pulang and memulangkan do not mean the same thing.

• pulang usually means to go home or to return oneself
• memulangkan means to return something or to give something back

So:

• Saya pulang = I go home / I return
• Saya memulangkan buku = I return the book

In your sentence, the owner is returning an object, namely the deposit, so memulangkan is the correct form.

The verb comes from the root pulang.

A simple breakdown is:

• pulang = return, go home
• meN- ... -kan added around it gives memulangkan

This makes it an active transitive verb, meaning a verb that takes a direct object.

So memulangkan deposit means to return the deposit.

Also, when meN- is added to a root beginning with p, the p usually disappears:

• pulang → memulangkan

By itself, it could mean any of those, depending on context.

Malay verbs usually do not change form for tense the way English verbs do. Time is often shown by context or time words such as:

• sudah = already
• telah = already, has
• sedang = currently
• akan = will

Examples:

• Pemilik rumah sudah memulangkan deposit. = The landlord has returned the deposit.
• Pemilik rumah akan memulangkan deposit. = The landlord will return the deposit.

Malay normally does not use articles like the or a/an.

So Pemilik rumah memulangkan deposit can naturally mean:

• the house owner returns the deposit
• a house owner returns a deposit

The exact meaning depends on context.

If you want to make something more clearly specific, Malay often uses words like itu:

• deposit itu = that deposit / the deposit

Yes. Deposit is a common loanword in Malay and is very natural in everyday use, especially in renting, banking, and payments.

So memulangkan deposit sounds normal.

Depending on context, you may also see more formal or descriptive alternatives, but deposit is very common and widely understood.

You can add a phrase with kepada, which means to.

For example:

• Pemilik rumah memulangkan deposit kepada penyewa. = The landlord returns the deposit to the tenant.

• Pemilik rumah memulangkan deposit kepada saya. = The landlord returns the deposit to me.

Without that phrase, the sentence just states that the deposit is returned, and the recipient is left understood or unstated.

Yes. A very natural passive version is:

• Deposit dipulangkan oleh pemilik rumah.

This means The deposit is returned by the landlord.

Here:

• dipulangkan is the passive form
• oleh pemilik rumah = by the house owner

Malay uses passive forms quite often, sometimes more often than English does.

They can overlap, but they are not exactly the same.

• pemilik rumah = the owner of the house
• tuan rumah can mean host, and in some contexts also landlord

So if you specifically want to say the person owns the property, pemilik rumah is very clear.

If you use tuan rumah, the meaning may depend more on context.

Add sudah or telah before the verb.

For example:

• Pemilik rumah sudah memulangkan deposit.
• Pemilik rumah telah memulangkan deposit.

Both mean that the action is already completed. In everyday speech, sudah is especially common.