Yara suna cin ayaba bayan sun gama aiki a gona.

to be

Breakdown of Yara suna cin ayaba bayan sun gama aiki a gona.

• yaro: the child
• ci: to eat
• aiki: the work

Questions & Answers about Yara suna cin ayaba bayan sun gama aiki a gona.

Is yara singular or plural, and where is the English-style plural ending like -s?

Yara is plural and means children.

Hausa doesn’t add an -s to make nouns plural the way English does. Instead, nouns usually change form in different ways. In this case:

• yaro = a boy / a child (masculine singular)
• yarinya = a girl (feminine singular)
• yara = children (boys and/or girls)

So in this sentence yara already means children; you don’t need any extra plural ending.

Why is there no word for “the” before yara, ayaba, or gona?

Hausa does not use a separate word like “the” or “a/an” as articles. Definiteness is usually understood from context or shown in other ways (like adding a demonstrative or a suffix).

In this sentence:

• yara can be understood as the children (because they are known from context).
• ayaba can be bananas (in general or these particular bananas).
• gona can be the farm or a farm, depending on context.

If you strongly want to show “the children”, you might see:

• yaran (or yaran nan, those/the children here) in a fuller context.

But in normal speech, plain yara is enough when context is clear.