Lokacin damina ruwa yana yawa kusa da koginmu.

to be

Breakdown of Lokacin damina ruwa yana yawa kusa da koginmu.

• ruwa: the water
• kusa: near
• da: with

Questions & Answers about Lokacin damina ruwa yana yawa kusa da koginmu.

What does Lokacin mean on its own, and how is it working in this sentence?

Lokacin comes from lokaci, which means time. The final -n is a linker (genitive marker) that connects it to the following noun.

So:

• lokaci = time
• lokacin X = the time of X / when X

In the sentence Lokacin damina ruwa yana yawa kusa da koginmu,
Lokacin damina literally means the time of rainy season, and functions like an adverbial phrase “during the rainy season / in the rainy season.”

What exactly does damina mean, and why is it next to Lokacin?

Damina means the rainy season (the wet season).

When you put it after lokacin, you get:

• lokacin damina = the time of the rainy season → during the rainy season

This is a common Hausa pattern:

• lokacin sanyi – the time of cold → during the cold season
• lokacin girbi – the time of harvest → during harvest time

So damina is specifying which time we are talking about.

Why is there no word like “in” or “during” before Lokacin damina?