Bankin ya maido da kuɗin.

the bank

Breakdown of Bankin ya maido da kuɗin.

• kuɗi: the money
• ya: he/it
• maido: to restore; bring back

Questions & Answers about Bankin ya maido da kuɗin.

What is the word-for-word breakdown of Bankin ya maido da kuɗin?

A helpful breakdown is:

• Bankin = the bank / that specific bank
• ya = it/he (third-person singular masculine) in the completive/perfective form
• maido da = return, bring back, refund
• kuɗin = the money

So the structure is roughly:

• Bankin ya maido da kuɗin
• The bank it returned the money

Natural English is simply The bank refunded the money or The bank returned the money.

Why is there a ya after Bankin if Bankin already means the bank?

Because Hausa normally uses a subject marker even when the subject noun is stated explicitly.

So in Bankin ya maido..., the noun Bankin names the subject, and ya agrees with it and marks the clause as completive/perfective.

To an English speaker, it can feel a bit like:

• The bank, it returned the money

But in Hausa this is just normal grammar, not unusual emphasis.

Is ya maido a past tense?