Na saya silifa duk da tsadarta.

Na is the 1st person singular subject marker in the completed/perfective form, so here it means I in the sense of I did / I have done.

So:

• Na saya = I bought

In Hausa, little words like na, ka, ya, ta, mun, kun, sun often show who did the action and sometimes also the aspect of the verb.

saya means to buy.

In this sentence:

• Na saya silifa = I bought slippers / I bought the slippers

So the basic structure is:

• Na = I
• saya = bought
• silifa = slippers

A very common Hausa word order is:

• subject marker + verb + object

So:

• Na = I
• saya = bought
• silifa = slippers

That gives:

• Na saya silifa

This is normal Hausa sentence order. English also often uses a similar pattern:

• I bought slippers

Silifa usually refers to slippers, flip-flops, or slip-on footwear, depending on context.

For an English speaker, it is often best understood as slippers or sandals/flip-flops.

A useful thing to know is that Hausa nouns do not always match English singular/plural expectations in a simple one-to-one way. In context, silifa can refer to the item or pair in the way English might say slippers.

So in this sentence, the intended meaning is naturally something like:

• I bought slippers or
• I bought the slippers

duk da means despite, in spite of, or sometimes regardless of.

So:

• duk da tsadarta = despite its expensiveness / despite its price / even though it was expensive

This is a very useful Hausa expression for showing contrast:

• I bought it, despite the fact that it was expensive.

Tsadarta comes from tsada, which means expensive or expensiveness / high price, plus a possessive ending.

You can think of it roughly like this:

• tsada = expensiveness / high price
• -rta = its / her (feminine singular possessive form attached here)

So:

• tsadarta = its expensiveness, its high price, or more naturally the fact that it was expensive

In smoother English, we usually would not say its expensiveness, but that is close to how the Hausa form works.

The -ta part refers back to silifa.

In Hausa, nouns belong to grammatical gender classes, and many nouns ending in -a are treated as feminine. Because silifa is treated as feminine here, the possessive/reference element is feminine too.

So:

• tsadarta = its expensiveness / its price with the feminine singular reference matching silifa

This is not the same as natural gender in English. It is a grammatical pattern.

It can cover both ideas depending on context.

Commonly:

• mai tsada = expensive
• tsada can also refer to high cost or expensiveness

So in duk da tsadarta, the idea is not just despite its price in a neutral sense, but more specifically:

• despite how expensive it was
• despite its high price

That is the natural meaning here.

More or less, yes.

A fairly literal breakdown is:

• Na saya silifa = I bought slippers
• duk da tsadarta = despite its expensiveness / despite its high price

But in natural English, you would usually translate it as:

• I bought the slippers even though they were expensive
• I bought slippers despite the high price

So the literal structure and the natural translation are slightly different.

Because Hausa often allows an idea like its expensiveness to express what English would turn into a full clause such as:

• even though they were expensive

So instead of saying a whole clause, Hausa can package that idea into a noun-like expression:

• tsadarta = its high price / its expensiveness

That makes the sentence compact and natural in Hausa.

Yes. Hausa often has more than one natural way to express the same idea.

For example, a speaker might also say something closer to:

• Na saya silifa ko da yake tana da tsada.

That means:

• I bought the slippers even though they were expensive.

The difference is mainly structural:

• duk da tsadarta = despite its high price
• ko da yake tana da tsada = even though it was expensive

Both are natural kinds of expression.

Not always.

Hausa does not use the in the same way English does. A bare noun like silifa can often mean:

• slippers
• the slippers
• a pair of slippers

depending on context.

So Na saya silifa could be understood as:

• I bought slippers or
• I bought the slippers

The broader context usually tells you which is meant.

Yes, very often.

It is a common pattern:

• duk da + noun / noun phrase

Examples:

• duk da wahala = despite the difficulty
• duk da ruwan sama = despite the rain
• duk da tsadarta = despite its high price

So this sentence is a good model for building similar expressions.

The sentence has two main parts:

1. Na saya silifa

   • Na = I
   • saya = bought
   • silifa = slippers

2. duk da tsadarta

   • duk da = despite / in spite of
   • tsadarta = its high price / the fact that it was expensive

So the whole sentence is:

• Na saya silifa duk da tsadarta.
• I bought slippers despite their high price.

The most natural English understandings are:

• I bought the slippers even though they were expensive.
• I bought slippers despite the high price.

If you want to keep close to the Hausa structure, you could think:

• I bought slippers, despite their expensiveness.

But that last one is more literal than natural in English.