Questions & Answers about Mun ga babban canji.
Mun is the we form used with a completed action in Hausa. So mun ga means we saw or we have seen, depending on context.
It is best to learn mun here as the normal subject form for we in this kind of sentence, rather than thinking of it as a separate word plus an extra particle.
Hausa is often better described in terms of aspect rather than strict English-style tense.
So mun ga is a completed-action form. In English, that can come out as:
- we saw
- we have seen
In this sentence, we saw a big change is the most natural translation, but we have seen a big change can also fit in the right context.
Yes. In this sentence, ga is the verb see.
That matters because Hausa also has another word ga in expressions like ga shi nan meaning something like here it is. Same spelling, different function. After mun, in Mun ga..., it is clearly the verb to see.