Pemilik rumah memeriksa rumah dengan penyewa.

Because the two instances of rumah are doing different jobs.

• pemilik rumah = house owner / homeowner / landlord
• the second rumah = the house being inspected

So the structure is:

• Pemilik rumah = the owner of the house
• memeriksa rumah = inspects/checks the house

This kind of repetition is normal in Malay, even if it sounds a bit repetitive in English.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Literally, pemilik rumah means owner of the house. In real usage, that could be:

• a homeowner
• a landlord

Since the sentence also includes penyewa (tenant), many learners will naturally understand pemilik rumah here as landlord.

Periksa is the base word, meaning check / inspect / examine.

Memeriksa is the active verb form made with the meN- prefix. This is a very common pattern in Malay.

• periksa = inspect, check
• memeriksa = to inspect / is inspecting

In a normal active sentence with a subject doing an action, Malay often uses this meN- form:

• Pemilik rumah memeriksa rumah = The landlord inspects the house

So memeriksa is the natural finite verb here.

Most naturally, it means with the tenant in the sense of together with the tenant.

So the phrase suggests that the house owner is inspecting the house and the tenant is also present.

However, dengan can be a little broad in Malay. It can mean things like:

• with (together with someone)
• with (using something)
• sometimes a general connection between two things

In this sentence, the intended reading is almost certainly together with the tenant.

Yes, slightly.

A native English speaker may wonder whether it means:

• the owner inspects the house together with the tenant
• or something odd like the owner inspects the house using the tenant

The second reading is not realistic in context, so people will understand the first one. But grammatically, dengan can sometimes be a bit vague.

If you want to make the meaning clearer, Malay often uses:

• bersama penyewa = together with the tenant

So a clearer version could be:

• Pemilik rumah memeriksa rumah bersama penyewa.

Malay does not normally use articles like the and a/an the way English does.

So:

• pemilik rumah can mean the house owner, a house owner, or the landlord
• rumah can mean the house or a house

The exact meaning comes from context.

That is very normal in Malay, and learners need to get used to letting context do more work than in English.

By default, rumah here is understood as singular: house.

Malay usually does not mark plural unless it needs to. If you really wanted to show plural clearly, you might say:

• rumah-rumah = houses

But in this sentence, plain rumah is most naturally understood as the house.

The sentence follows a very common Malay pattern:

• Subject + Verb + Object + Prepositional phrase

Here that is:

• Pemilik rumah = subject
• memeriksa = verb
• rumah = object
• dengan penyewa = prepositional phrase

So the structure is fairly close to English:

• The landlord inspects the house with the tenant.

Yes. Rumah can mean house or home, depending on context.

In this sentence, because we have pemilik rumah and penyewa, house is probably the better translation. It sounds more like a property being inspected by an owner/landlord and tenant.

So while rumah is flexible, house fits this context best.

The sentence is understandable, but many speakers might choose a slightly clearer or more natural phrasing, especially because dengan can feel a bit vague.

For example:

• Pemilik rumah memeriksa rumah bersama penyewa.
  = The landlord inspects the house together with the tenant.

Or, if you want to make the relationship even clearer:

• Pemilik rumah memeriksa rumah itu bersama penyewa.
  = The landlord inspects that/the house together with the tenant.

So the original sentence is grammatical and understandable, but bersama often sounds clearer than dengan in this context.