Na mayar da takalmin duk da ragin.

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Breakdown of Na mayar da takalmin duk da ragin.

• takalmi: the shoe
• duk da: despite
• ragi: the discount; reduction

Questions & Answers about Na mayar da takalmin duk da ragin.

What does na mean here?

Na marks 1st person singular in the completive/perfective. In natural English, Na mayar... is usually translated as I returned... or I have returned....

So the sentence begins with the idea I did / I have done.

Is mayar da something I should learn as one expression?

Yes. It is very helpful to learn mayar da as a set pattern.

With an object after it, mayar da commonly means things like:

• return
• take back
• put back

So here, mayar da takalmin means return the shoe / take the shoe back / put the shoe back, depending on context.

Why are there two das in the sentence? Do they mean the same thing?

No. They are doing different jobs.

• The first da in mayar da takalmin belongs to the verb pattern mayar da.
• The second da in duk da ragin is part of the fixed expression duk da, which means despite / in spite of.

So even though the same word da appears twice, it is not functioning the same way both times.