Adadin ragowar yana da yawa.

A natural learner-friendly breakdown is:

• adadin = the amount / the quantity / the number of
• ragowar = the leftovers / what remains / the remainder
• yana = it is / it has for a masculine singular subject in this kind of present-time structure
• da = literally with, but very often used in expressions of having
• yawa = much / many / a lot / abundance

So the whole sentence means that the amount of leftovers is large or there are a lot of leftovers, depending on how natural you want the English to sound.

Because adadi changes to adadin when it is followed by another noun in an of relationship.

So:

• adadi = amount / quantity
• adadin ragowar = the amount of the leftovers

This final -n is very common in Hausa when a noun is linked to another noun after it.

This is another very common Hausa pattern. A noun often appears in a different form when it is definite or when it is used in a linked noun phrase.

So here:

• ragowa = remainder / leftovers in a more basic dictionary form
• ragowar = the remainder / the leftovers in this linked, more specific form

A good practical way to think of it is: Hausa nouns often change shape a little inside phrases, especially with the-like or linked meanings.

Because Hausa normally keeps a subject marker / agreement pronoun in the clause even when the full noun subject is stated.

So the structure is roughly:

• Adadin ragowar = the subject noun phrase
• yana = a pronoun agreeing with that subject
• da yawa = the predicate

English usually does not repeat the subject this way, but Hausa often does. So this is normal, not redundant.

Because the head of the subject is adadi, and that noun is treated as masculine singular here.

That means Hausa uses the matching subject form:

• yana = masculine singular
• tana = feminine singular
• suna = plural

The important point is that the agreement follows the main noun of the subject phrase, which is adadin, not ragowar.

Yes, more or less.

Literally, da often means with, so yana da can be understood as it is with or it has. But in natural Hausa, this pattern is very commonly used not only for possession, but also for qualities and amounts.

So:

• yana da kuɗi = he has money
• yana da yawa = it is a lot / it is much / it is many

In this sentence, it does not mean literal ownership. It is just the normal Hausa way to say the amount is large.

Yawa is a very useful word that often works like much, many, a lot, or abundance.

In other words, it does not fit neatly into only one English-style category. Depending on the sentence, it can feel noun-like or adjective-like.

In da yawa, the whole expression means:

• a lot
• much
• many
• plenty

So it is best to learn da yawa as a very common set phrase.

Not exactly, though the idea is very close.

Adadin ragowar yana da yawa focuses on the amount / quantity of the leftovers. So it is a little more like:

• The amount of leftovers is large
• There are a lot of leftovers

In natural English, the simpler version may sound better, but the Hausa sentence specifically highlights the quantity.

It is best to think of it as a collective or mass-like idea here: what remains / the leftovers.

Hausa does not always match English number categories one-for-one. So even if English uses a plural word like leftovers, Hausa may treat the idea more as a single mass or remainder.

That is why you should focus more on the phrase meaning than on forcing it into an English singular/plural system.

Not in this sentence pattern.

Ne / ce are used in other kinds of copular or focus sentences, but Adadin ragowar yana da yawa uses the normal subject + agreement marker + da + yawa pattern.

So for this meaning, yana da yawa is the right structure.

A common negative version is:

Adadin ragowar ba shi da yawa.

That means The amount of leftovers is not much or There are not many leftovers.

Notice that the positive and negative patterns are different:

• yana da yawa = it has / it is a lot
• ba shi da yawa = it does not have / it is not much

This is a very useful pattern to memorize.