Majstor dolazi kod stanodavca.

Majstor literally means master or craftsman, but in everyday Serbian it very often means repairman, handyman, or workman.

So in this sentence, it usually refers to the person who comes to fix something. The exact English word depends on context:

• repairman
• handyman
• technician
• workman

Dolazi is the 3rd person singular present tense of dolaziti, meaning to come / to be coming / to arrive.

It matches majstor, which is singular:

• ja dolazim = I come / am coming
• ti dolaziš = you come / are coming
• on/ona dolazi = he/she comes / is coming

So:

• Majstor dolazi = The repairman is coming / The repairman comes

Depending on context, Serbian present tense can sound like:

• a current action
• a planned near-future action
• a habitual action

Kod is a very common preposition in Serbian meaning something like:

• at someone's place
• to someone's place
• with someone (in the sense of visiting or going to them)

So kod stanodavca means:

• to the landlord's place
• to see the landlord
• at the landlord's place

With people, Serbian often uses kod + genitive where English might use to.

Compare:

• Idem kod doktora. = I’m going to the doctor.
• Bio sam kod prijatelja. = I was at my friend's place.
• Majstor dolazi kod stanodavca. = The repairman is coming to the landlord / to the landlord’s place.

Because kod requires the genitive case, and stanodavca is the genitive singular form of stanodavac.

So:

• nominative: stanodavac = landlord
• genitive: stanodavca = of the landlord / to the landlord’s place after kod

This is one of the basic things to learn in Serbian: prepositions often control a specific case.

Here:

• kod + genitive

So:

• kod stanodavca
• not kod stanodavac

Stanodavac means landlord.

It comes from:

• stan = apartment / flat / dwelling
• davac = giver / provider

So literally it is something like the one who provides the apartment.

The opposite word is:

• stanar = tenant

So:

• stanodavac = landlord
• stanar = tenant

It can suggest both, depending on context.

Most literally, kod stanodavca means at the landlord’s place or to the landlord’s place. But in natural usage, it can also mean to see the landlord.

So this sentence may imply:

• the repairman is going to the landlord's apartment/house
• the repairman is going to meet the landlord
• the repairman is arriving where the landlord is

Serbian often leaves this slightly broad, and context tells you the exact meaning.

Serbian has no articles. There is no direct equivalent of a/an/the as a normal part of the grammar.

So:

• majstor can mean a repairman or the repairman
• stanodavca can mean a landlord or the landlord

Context tells you which one is meant.

That is why one Serbian sentence can correspond to more than one English translation:

• A repairman is coming to the landlord.
• The repairman is coming to the landlord.
• The repairman is coming to the landlord’s place.

Yes. Serbian word order is fairly flexible, because the case endings help show the grammatical roles.

The neutral order here is:

• Majstor dolazi kod stanodavca.

But you could also hear:

• Kod stanodavca dolazi majstor.
• Dolazi majstor kod stanodavca.

These variations can change focus or emphasis, but not the basic meaning.

For example:

• Majstor dolazi kod stanodavca. = neutral statement
• Kod stanodavca dolazi majstor. = emphasis on where
• Dolazi majstor kod stanodavca. = emphasis on the fact that he is coming

Normally, kod stanodavca is the natural choice if you mean to the landlord / to the landlord’s place.

Using just stanodavcu would sound different and usually would not be the normal way to express this idea with dolaziti.

Serbian strongly prefers:

• doći/dolaziti kod nekoga = to come to someone's place / to someone

If you want a verb that naturally takes the person more directly, compare:

• prilazi stanodavcu = he is approaching the landlord

So for this sentence, kod stanodavca is the idiomatic wording.

Dolaziti is imperfective. Its present tense form is dolazi.

That matters because in Serbian:

• imperfective verbs can have a real present meaning
• perfective verbs usually do not describe an ongoing present action

The perfective partner is usually:

• doći = to come / to arrive

Compare:

• Majstor dolazi. = The repairman is coming / comes.
• Majstor će doći. = The repairman will come.
• Majstor je došao. = The repairman came / has arrived.

So dolazi is the natural form for is coming.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

MAI-stor DO-la-zi kod sta-no-DAV-tsa

A few useful notes:

• j in Serbian sounds like English y
• c sounds like ts
• ž would sound like the s in measure, but there is no ž in this sentence
• lj, nj, ć, č, đ, dž are special Serbian sounds, but again they do not appear here

More roughly:

• majstor ≈ MY-stor
• dolazi ≈ DOH-lah-zee
• kod ≈ kohd
• stanodavca ≈ stah-noh-DAV-tsah

Majstor is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence.

So the structure is:

• Majstor = subject, nominative
• dolazi = verb
• kod stanodavca = prepositional phrase, with stanodavca in the genitive

This is a very common Serbian sentence pattern:

• subject + verb + prepositional phrase

Yes. Because dolazi is present tense of an imperfective verb, it can mean different things depending on context:

• right now / currently: The repairman is coming.
• scheduled / expected soon: The repairman is coming later.
• habitually / regularly: The repairman comes to the landlord.

Without more context, all of these are grammatically possible. In real life, the situation usually makes the intended meaning clear.