Amfanin gona yana kasuwa.

The farm produce is at the market.

Breakdown of Amfanin gona yana kasuwa.

• kasuwa: the market
• ya: he/it
• amfanin gona: crops; farm produce

Questions & Answers about Amfanin gona yana kasuwa.

What does amfanin gona literally consist of?

It is a noun + noun expression.

• gona = farm, field, cultivation
• amfanin is the linked form of amfani

As a whole, amfanin gona is a common expression meaning farm produce, crops, harvest, agricultural produce. It is best learned as a set phrase, because the exact literal breakdown is less important than the full meaning.

Why is it amfanin and not just amfani?

The final -n is a linker used when a noun is connected to another noun. It often works a bit like English of.

So amfanin gona is roughly like the produce of the farm or farm produce.

This kind of linking is very common in Hausa noun phrases.

Does amfani usually mean the same thing as it does here?

Not always. On its own, amfani often means use or benefit. But in expressions like amfanin gona, it has the sense of produce, yield, output.

So this is a good example of why it helps to learn some Hausa noun combinations as whole expressions, not only word by word.

What exactly does yana mean here?

Here, is the form used for a subject in a present/state/location type of sentence.