Questions & Answers about Ta amsa da ladabi.
Here ta means she.
More specifically, it is the 3rd person singular feminine subject marker used with the perfective/completive form of the verb. So ta amsa means she answered or she replied.
If the subject were masculine, you would normally say ya amsa for he answered.
Usually, yes, in a sentence like this it is most naturally understood as past: she answered / she replied.
But it is better to think of this Hausa form as perfective/completive rather than exactly the same as an English past tense. It presents the action as completed. In many everyday contexts, English translates that as a past action.
Amsa is the verb here, meaning to answer or to reply.
In this sentence, it is the main action word:
- Ta amsa = She answered / She replied
Depending on context, Hausa often allows this verb without stating what was answered. English can do that too: She replied politely.