Mun ga tauraro da dare.

to see

Breakdown of Mun ga tauraro da dare.

• da: during
• dare: the night
• mu: we

Questions & Answers about Mun ga tauraro da dare.

What does mun mean exactly?

Mun is the Hausa form for we in the completive/perfective pattern. In practical terms, it tells you the subject is we and the action is viewed as completed.

So mun ga is the normal way to say we saw or sometimes we have seen.

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Why is it ga and not gani?

Gani is the dictionary form, roughly to see / seeing.

After a subject form like mun, Hausa normally uses the finite verb form ga. So:

• gani = to see
• mun ga = we saw / we have seen

This is very common in Hausa: the form you learn in a vocabulary list is not always the form used inside a full sentence.

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Does mun ga mean we saw or we have seen?

It can match either one in English, depending on context.

The Hausa form is completive/perfective, which means the action is presented as finished. English may translate that as:

• we saw
• we have seen

In a simple sentence like this, we saw is often the most natural English translation.

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