Misali, yara suna koyon tsabta a makaranta.

to be

Breakdown of Misali, yara suna koyon tsabta a makaranta.

• a: at
• makaranta: the school
• yaro: the child

Questions & Answers about Misali, yara suna koyon tsabta a makaranta.

What does Misali mean here, and is it necessary?

Misali literally means “example”. At the start of a sentence like this, it works like English “for example,” “for instance.”

• Misali, yara suna koyon tsabta a makaranta.
  → For example, children learn cleanliness at school.

You can leave Misali out if you’re not giving an example; it doesn’t affect the grammar of the rest of the sentence, only the discourse (it tells the listener this is just one example).

Can you break down each word in the sentence and its basic role?

Yes. Word by word:

• Misali – example / for example (discourse marker)
• yara – children (plural of yaro “child”)
• suna – they are (3rd person plural subject pronoun + progressive aspect)
• koyon – learning (of); verbal noun koyo “learning” + -n “of”
• tsabta – cleanliness, being clean
• a – preposition in / at
• makaranta – school

So structurally:
[For example], children they-are learning (the) cleanliness at school.
Natural English: For example, children learn cleanliness at school.

Why do we have both yara and suna? Isn’t yara already “they/children”?