Begenta yana da ƙarfi.

to have

Breakdown of Begenta yana da ƙarfi.

• ƙarfi: strength
• ya: he/it
• bege: the hope

Questions & Answers about Begenta yana da ƙarfi.

What does Begenta break down into?

It is the noun bege plus a possessive ending meaning her. So Begenta means her hope. In this form, a linking -n- appears before the possessive ending, which is why you see begen-ta rather than just bege-ta.

Why is the possessive built into the noun instead of using a separate word for her?

Hausa very often attaches possessive endings directly to nouns. So where English says her hope as two words, Hausa can make it one word: Begenta. This is a very normal pattern.

Why is yana there if Begenta is already the subject?

Because Hausa commonly uses the full noun first and then follows it with a pronoun that agrees with it. So Begenta yana... is structurally like Her hope, it... in English. English usually avoids that repetition, but Hausa uses it naturally.

Why is it yana and not tana?

Because yana agrees with bege, not with the person who owns the hope. The noun bege is grammatically masculine singular, so the agreement marker is yana. Even though the possessor is her, that does not control the agreement here.