Ciyawar ta bushe, saboda haka za mu tono ta.

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Breakdown of Ciyawar ta bushe, saboda haka za mu tono ta.

• saboda haka: so
• za: will
• ta: she/it

Questions & Answers about Ciyawar ta bushe, saboda haka za mu tono ta.

Why does ciyawa become ciyawar here?

Ciyawa means grass or weeds.
Ciyawar means the grass / the weeds.

The ending -r is a very common Hausa way of marking a noun as definite, especially with feminine nouns. So:

• ciyawa = grass
• ciyawar = the grass

That is why the sentence starts with Ciyawar rather than just Ciyawa.

What is ta doing in Ciyawar ta bushe?

Here, ta is the 3rd person feminine singular subject marker. It agrees with ciyawar, which is treated as feminine singular.

So:

• Ciyawar = the grass
• ta = it/she (feminine singular subject marker)
• bushe = dry up, become dry

Together, Ciyawar ta bushe means something like The grass has dried up or The grass dried up.

In Hausa, this kind of subject marker is very normal, even when the noun is already stated.

Why is ta used again at the end in za mu tono ta?

The last ta is different from the earlier ta.

• In Ciyawar ta bushe, is a : dried up.