Questions & Answers about Muna yin ban ruwa.
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 ...
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.
Ban ruwa is a set expression meaning irrigation or watering.
It is best learned as one chunk rather than trying to translate each part separately every time. In other words, Hausa is treating ban ruwa as the activity itself, and the sentence says .