A daren Lahadi, na yi waya da ’yar uwata minti talatin daga ƙarfe bakwai zuwa takwas.

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Breakdown of A daren Lahadi, na yi waya da ’yar uwata minti talatin daga ƙarfe bakwai zuwa takwas.

• dare: the night
• yi: to do
• ’yar uwa: the sister

Questions & Answers about A daren Lahadi, na yi waya da ’yar uwata minti talatin daga ƙarfe bakwai zuwa takwas.

What is the basic word-by-word breakdown of this sentence?

A daren Lahadi, na yi waya da ’yar uwata minti talatin daga ƙarfe bakwai zuwa takwas.

Rough breakdown:

• A – in / on / at (preposition for time or place)
• daren – the night / evening (from dare, “night”)

• Lahadi – Sunday

  • A daren Lahadi – On Sunday night / Sunday evening
• na yi – I did / I made (past/perfective of yi, “to do/make”)

• waya – literally wire, but in modern Hausa this phrase yi waya means to make a phone call / talk on the phone

  • na yi waya – I made a phone call / I talked on the phone
• da – with (here: with someone)
• ’yar uwa – literally daughter of kin, idiomatically sister

• -ta (in uwata) – possessive suffix my

  • ’yar uwata – my sister

• minti talatin – thirty minutes (minti “minute”, talatin “thirty”)

• daga – from
• ƙarfe bakwai – 7 o’clock (ƙarfe “o’clock / clock time”, bakwai “seven”)
• zuwa – to / until
• takwas – eight (understood as 8 o’clock from context)

So a literal reading is:
On the night of Sunday, I did phone with my sister thirty minutes from 7 o’clock to 8.

Why is it A daren Lahadi and not something like A dare na Lahadi? What does literally mean?