Questions & Answers about Mun bi gajeriyar hanya.
Mun means we in a completed-action form. In other words, it is not just the subject we by itself; it also tells you that the action is viewed as finished.
So Mun bi means something like we followed or we took.
Usually, yes, that is how you would translate it in this sentence.
More exactly, Hausa is often described in terms of aspect rather than tense. Mun marks the perfective/completed action. In normal context, English speakers often render that as a simple past:
- Mun bi = we followed
- Mun bi = we took
Depending on context, it can sometimes feel a bit like we have followed, but we took / we followed is the most natural translation here.
The basic meaning of bi is to follow.
But with a word like hanya meaning road / path / route, it often means to take a route or to go by a route.
So in this sentence, bi can be understood as:
- follow
- take
- go by
That is why the whole sentence is naturally translated as something like .