Questions & Answers about Mu'amalar ta tsaya.
In Hausa, it is normal to have the subject noun and a subject marker together. Here ta is the 3rd-person singular feminine subject marker, agreeing with mu'amala. So the pattern is:
Mu'amalar + ta + tsaya
subject + subject marker + verb
A very literal way to feel it is The transaction, it stopped.
Mu'amala is the basic noun. Mu'amalar is the form often used when a feminine noun is specific/definite in a sentence like this. Learners often notice the same pattern in words like:
mota → motar
So here Mu'amalar suggests something like the transaction / the dealing / the interaction, not just the noun in a general sense.
Yes. Mu'amala is treated as a feminine noun in Hausa, which is why the subject marker is ta and not ya.
This is grammatical gender, not natural gender. So it does not mean the thing itself is biologically female.