Shagon ya karɓi tayina.

Shago is the basic noun, meaning shop/store.
Shagon is its definite/linking form, often used when the noun is specific, so in a sentence like this it is commonly understood as the shop.

A lot of Hausa nouns do this with -n or -r:

• shago → shagon
• littafi → littafin

So shagon here is not a different word; it is the form Hausa uses in this kind of context.

Ya is the 3rd person masculine singular subject marker used in the completed/perfective aspect.

In simpler terms, it is the little word Hausa puts before the verb to show:

• who the subject is: he/it
• and that the action is viewed as completed

So in Shagon ya karɓi tayina, ya is the marker that goes with shagon before the verb.

Because Hausa has grammatical gender, not just natural gender.

That means nouns are treated as masculine or feminine, even when they refer to things, not people. Shago is grammatically masculine, so it takes ya, not ta.

So here:

• shagon = masculine noun
• therefore ya = the correct agreement marker

It does not mean the shop is literally male.

Because in Hausa, the normal sentence pattern usually includes both:

1. the full noun subject
2. a matching subject marker before the verb

So Hausa often works like:

Subject noun + subject marker + verb + object

In this sentence:

• Shagon = the subject noun
• ya = the matching subject marker
• karɓi = the verb
• tayina = the object

To an English speaker, that extra marker can feel redundant, but in Hausa it is normal grammar.

It is better described as completed/perfective aspect rather than a simple tense label.

In many contexts, English translates this as a past tense:

• accepted
• received

But depending on context, it can sometimes be closer to:

• has accepted
• has received

So yes, in this sentence it will usually come out as a past action in English, but Hausa is really marking the action as completed.

The verb is commonly cited in dictionaries as karɓa, but in actual sentence use you often get karɓi in this kind of structure, especially before a direct object.

So:

• dictionary-style form: karɓa
• form in this sentence: karɓi

This is a normal Hausa verb pattern, not a different word.
A similar thing happens with other verbs too, for example:

• saya → sayi in a sentence like Na sayi littafi

So ya karɓi tayina is the expected form.

It is a noun meaning offer/bid plus the possessive ending -na, which means my.

So:

• -na = my
• tayina = my offer / my bid

Hausa often attaches possessive pronouns directly to the noun instead of using a separate word like English my.

Because Hausa often expresses possession with a suffix attached to the noun.

So instead of a separate word like English my offer, Hausa can say one word:

• tayina = offer + my

This is very common in Hausa:

• gidana = my house
• sunanka = your name
• littafinsa = his book

So tayina follows a normal Hausa pattern.

Hausa does not use a separate article exactly like English the.

Instead, definiteness is often shown by:

• the form of the noun itself, as in shagon
• or simply by context

So shagon is often how Hausa expresses what English would say as the shop.

The letter ɓ is a special Hausa consonant called an implosive b.

A practical beginner approximation is:

• pronounce it like a strong b

So karɓi can be approximated as:

• kar-bi

If you want to be more accurate, ɓ is produced with a different airstream from ordinary English b, but many learners start with a normal b and refine it later.

Yes. Depending on context, karɓi can mean things like:

• receive
• accept
• sometimes take

With something like an offer, English usually prefers accept.
So in this sentence, accepted is the most natural translation, even though the Hausa verb has a slightly broader range.

Broadly, yes: it is still subject + verb + object.

But Hausa has an important extra element: the subject marker before the verb.

So the structure is:

• Shagon = subject
• ya = subject/agreement marker
• karɓi = verb
• tayina = object

So compared with English, the biggest thing learners notice is that Hausa inserts that small marker before the verb.