Kifi wanda uwa ta dafa yana daɗi sosai.

to be

Breakdown of Kifi wanda uwa ta dafa yana daɗi sosai.

• daɗi: tasty
• sosai: very
• dafa: to cook

Questions & Answers about Kifi wanda uwa ta dafa yana daɗi sosai.

What exactly does wanda do in this sentence? Is it like that/which in English?

Yes. wanda is a relative pronoun meaning who/that/which for a masculine singular noun.

• kifi = fish (masculine singular)
• wanda = which / that (masc. sg.)

So:

• kifi wanda uwa ta dafa ≈ the fish that/which mother cooked

Hausa has different forms of this word depending on gender and number:

• wanda – masc. singular (used here for kifi)
• wadda – fem. singular
• wadanda – plural (any gender)

So wanda is agreeing with kifi, not with uwa. It introduces the relative clause uwa ta dafa (mother cooked).

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