Garinmu yana arewa da birni, amma makarantar jami'a tana kudu.

Garinmu is one word made from:

• gari – town
• -nmu – our (possessive suffix)

So garinmu = gari + nmu = our town.

In Hausa, possession is usually shown by adding a suffix to the noun, not by a separate word like our in English. With gari, you get:

• garina – my town
• garinka – your town (to a man)
• garinki – your town (to a woman)
• garinsa – his town
• garinta – her town
• garinmu – our town
• garinku – your town (plural)
• garinsu – their town

So you don’t say mu gari for our town; you attach -nmu to gari and get garinmu.