Tarayyar tana da membobi da yawa.

Tarayyar is the form you use here for the federation. Hausa usually does not use a separate word exactly like English the. Instead, the noun often changes form.

So:

• Tarayya = federation / union
• Tarayyar = the federation

The ending -r is a common feminine definite/linking ending.

In Hausa, it is normal to have a full noun subject and then also use a matching subject marker. So Tarayyar tana... is a normal pattern.

A very literal English-style breakdown would be something like:

• Tarayyar = the federation
• tana = it
• da... = has / is with...

So the structure feels a bit like The federation, it has... even though normal English would just say The federation has...

Yes. In this sentence, tana da means has.

Hausa often expresses possession with a structure like subject marker + da, rather than with a single verb exactly like English to have. So:

• tana da membobi = it has members

It does not mean is having in the English progressive sense here. It is just the normal way to say has.

Yes, tarayya is grammatically feminine, so the sentence uses the feminine singular subject marker tana.

This is grammatical gender, not biological sex. So it does not mean the federation is literally female. It just means the noun belongs to the feminine class in Hausa grammar.

Very roughly:

• yana = he/it (masculine) ...
• tana = she/it (feminine) ...

Here, Tarayyar takes tana.

Membobi means members.

A learner should know that Hausa plurals are often not as simple as adding English-style -s. Many nouns have their own plural patterns, so you usually learn singular and plural as vocabulary items.

So here, you should just learn membobi as a plural noun meaning members.

Here, da yawa means many or a lot of.

So:

• membobi da yawa = many members

This is a very common Hausa pattern. The quantity expression comes after the noun, not before it as in English.

Compare the word order:

• English: many members
• Hausa: members many → membobi da yawa

No, the two da's are doing different jobs.

In tana da, da is part of the possession structure:

• tana da membobi = it has members

In da yawa, da is part of a fixed expression meaning many / much / a lot:

• membobi da yawa = many members

So the same written word appears twice, but its function is different in each place.

A rough guide is:

ta-ra-yyar ta-na da mem-BO-bi da YA-wa

A few helpful points:

• y sounds like English y in yes
• yy is pronounced a little longer than a single y
• w sounds like English w
• Hausa spelling is fairly phonetic

Also, Hausa has tone, but tone is usually not written in everyday spelling, so learners often meet sentences like this without tone marks.

Broadly, yes, but not exactly.

The sentence is structured like:

• Tarayyar = subject
• tana da = has
• membobi da yawa = many members

So the overall idea is close to English The federation has many members.

But there are two important differences from English:

• Hausa keeps the subject marker tana even after naming the subject.
• The quantity phrase da yawa comes after the noun.

So it is similar to English in meaning, but not completely word-for-word in structure.