Akwai fartanya da magirbi, saboda haka girbi zai fara.

Akwai is the common Hausa way to say there is or there are. It introduces the existence or presence of something.

So Akwai fartanya da magirbi means that those items are present or available.

It is not a normal English-style verb to be. Think of it as an existential word: there exists / there are.

Because akwai does not change for singular vs. plural the way English does.

So Hausa can say:

• Akwai littafi = there is a book
• Akwai littattafai = there are books

In your sentence, even though fartanya and magirbi are two items, akwai stays the same.

Here da means and. It is simply joining two nouns.

So:

• fartanya da magirbi = a hoe and a sickle/tool

A learner should know that da can also mean with, and it appears in other structures too, so its exact meaning depends on context. In this sentence, it is just a coordinator meaning and.

Yes. They are clearly related.

girbi refers to harvest or harvesting, while magirbi is a derived noun connected to that same root. In Hausa, forms with ma- are often related to a person or thing associated with an action or function.

So even if the learner already knows the meaning from the translation, it is useful to notice that these two words belong to the same word family.

Saboda haka means therefore, so, for that reason, or as a result.

It links the first clause to the consequence in the second clause:

• the tools are available
• therefore / so the harvesting will begin

It is a connector showing cause and result. You may also hear don haka, which is another very common way to say so / therefore.

Because girbi is the subject of that clause.

The structure is:

• girbi = the harvest / harvesting
• zai = will
• fara = begin

So the meaning is the harvest will begin or harvesting will begin.

This is different from a sentence where someone starts doing the harvesting. Here, the event itself is what is beginning.

Zai is the future form used with a third-person masculine singular subject: he/it will.

In this sentence, girbi is treated as a masculine singular noun, so Hausa uses zai:

• girbi zai fara = harvesting will begin

This is a very common Hausa pattern: even when the noun subject is stated, Hausa still uses the matching subject marker.

Here it is functioning as a noun, more specifically like a verbal noun: harvest / harvesting.

That is why it can be the subject of zai fara:

• girbi zai fara = harvesting will begin

English often separates noun and verb uses more clearly than Hausa does, so this is a useful thing for learners to notice.

Because fara can work on its own as begin / start.

So:

• girbi zai fara = harvesting will begin

Hausa can also use fara before another action, but it does not have to. In this sentence, nothing else needs to follow it, because the subject itself is what is starting.

Hausa does not use articles in the same way English does. There is no direct equivalent that must always appear before nouns like a, an, or the.

So words like fartanya, magirbi, and girbi can appear by themselves, and English adds a, the, or no article depending on context.

That is why a Hausa sentence can be shorter than the English translation in this respect.