Questions & Answers about A yau baƙuwa za ta zo gidanmu.
What does each word in A yau baƙuwa za ta zo gidanmu. mean literally?
Word by word:
- A – a preposition meaning on / at, often used with times and days.
- yau – today.
- A yau together = today / on this day.
- baƙuwa – female guest or female stranger.
- za – future marker (something that will happen).
- ta – she (3rd person singular feminine subject pronoun).
- za ta = she will.
- zo – come.
- gidanmu – our house:
- gida – house
- -n – a linker (often translates as of)
- mu – we / our
- gida + -n + mu → gidanmu = house-of-us = our house.
So the whole sentence is literally: Today, a female guest will come (to) our house.
Why do we say A yau instead of just yau?