Sau da yawa ina canza kaya biyu kafin in tafi aiki.

to be

Breakdown of Sau da yawa ina canza kaya biyu kafin in tafi aiki.

• aiki: the work
• tafi: to go
• biyu: two

Questions & Answers about Sau da yawa ina canza kaya biyu kafin in tafi aiki.

What does each part of Sau da yawa ina canza kaya biyu kafin in tafi aiki correspond to in English?

Roughly, each chunk lines up like this:

• Sau da yawa – often / many times
  • sau – time, occasion (as in “once, twice…”)
  • da yawa – many / a lot
• ina canza – I change / I am changing
  • ina – present/imperfective marker with I
  • canza – to change (something)
• kaya biyu – two sets of clothes / two items of clothing
  • kaya – clothes, belongings, things
  • biyu – two
• kafin in tafi aiki – before I go to work
  • kafin – before
  • in – I in the subjunctive set (used after kafin)
  • tafi – go
  • aiki – work, job

So the structure is literally something like: “Many times I-change clothes two before I-go work.”

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