Muna yin ban ruwa.

to do

Breakdown of Muna yin ban ruwa.

• mu: we
• ban ruwa: watering; irrigation

Questions & Answers about Muna yin ban ruwa.

What does muna mean here?

Muna is the Hausa continuous/present form for we.

You can think of it as:

• mu = we
• plus the continuous marker built into the form

So muna often corresponds to English we are ...-ing or sometimes we ... in a present-time sense, depending on context.

In this sentence, it introduces the action: we are doing / we are engaged in ...

Why is it yin and not yi?

Because yin is the form used here before a complement.

The basic verb is yi = to do / to make, but in constructions like this Hausa uses a verbal-noun-style form:

• yi = do
• yin = doing / the doing of

So:

• yin ban ruwa = doing irrigation

This is very common in Hausa. After forms like muna, you will often see this kind of -n form before the thing being done.

What is ban ruwa exactly?