Abubuwa da yawa sun canza a ƙarnin da ya gabata.

they

Breakdown of Abubuwa da yawa sun canza a ƙarnin da ya gabata.

• a: in
• abu: the thing
• da yawa: much

Questions & Answers about Abubuwa da yawa sun canza a ƙarnin da ya gabata.

Why is Abubuwa plural, and what is the singular?

Abubuwa means things and is the plural of abu, which means thing.

So:

• abu = thing
• abubuwa = things

This is not a simple add one ending kind of plural, so it is worth learning as a vocabulary pair.

What does da yawa mean here?

da yawa means many or a lot of when it follows a noun.

So:

• abubuwa da yawa = many things

This is a very common Hausa pattern:

• mutane da yawa = many people
• littattafai da yawa = many books

Even though da often means with, in this expression da yawa works together as a quantity phrase.

Why is sun used in the sentence?

sun is the 3rd person plural completive/perfective subject marker. It agrees with Abubuwa, which is plural.

So sun canza means something like:

• they changed
• they have changed

Here they refers to abubuwa = things.