Yara suna gida yanzu.

to be

Breakdown of Yara suna gida yanzu.

• gida: the home
• yanzu: now
• yaro: the child

Questions & Answers about Yara suna gida yanzu.

What does Yara mean?

Yara is the plural of yaro (“child”), so it means children.

What is suna? Is it a verb?

Suna isn’t a main verb. It’s the third‑person plural present‑progressive construction: su (“they”) + na (progressive aspect). It functions like “are (doing)…” in English. Here, with no lexical verb, suna simply “links” the subject to its location.

Why isn’t there a separate verb for “to be” in Hausa?

Hausa doesn’t use a dedicated present‑tense copula. Instead it relies on pronoun + aspect markers (like na for present/progressive). For equational sentences with nouns or adjectives you sometimes see ne/ce, but that’s not needed in basic location statements.

What role does gida play here?

Gida means home or house. In this sentence it’s a locative complement meaning “at home.” Hausa often omits a preposition when a location is clear from context.

What about yanzu—where does it go?

Yanzu means now. It’s a temporal adverb and can appear at the end (as here) or at the beginning:
Yanzu yara suna gida.