Tantancewar tana ci gaba.

The verification is continuing.

Breakdown of Tantancewar tana ci gaba.

• ci gaba: to continue
• ta: she/it
• tantancewa: the verification; assessment

Questions & Answers about Tantancewar tana ci gaba.

Is tantancewa a verb or a noun here?

Here it is a noun, more specifically a verbal noun.

The base verb is tantance, and tantancewa is the noun form built from it, similar to English forms like assessment, checking, or sometimes screening, depending on context.

So in this sentence, tantancewar is the subject of the sentence, not the main verb.

What does the -r in tantancewar do?

The -r marks the noun as definite and agrees with a feminine noun.

So:

• tantancewa = assessment / checking
• tantancewar = the assessment / the checking

Hausa does not have a separate word exactly like English the, so this kind of ending often helps show definiteness.

Why is there both Tantancewar and tana? Doesn’t that sound like the assessment it...?

Yes, and that is normal in Hausa.

Hausa commonly uses:

• a full subject noun
• followed by a subject pronoun that agrees with it

So the structure is roughly:

• Tantancewar = the assessment
• tana = it is / it is in the process of