Farashin ruwa ya ƙaru a kasuwa.

the water

Breakdown of Farashin ruwa ya ƙaru a kasuwa.

• kasuwa: the market
• a: at
• farashi: the price

Questions & Answers about Farashin ruwa ya ƙaru a kasuwa.

What is the word-by-word breakdown of Farashin ruwa ya ƙaru a kasuwa, and what role does each word play in the sentence?

Here’s the breakdown:

• Farashin – the price (of)

  • From farashi = price
  • The final -n is the genitive linker (like “of the”) attaching it to the next noun: farashin ruwa = the price of water.

• ruwa – water

  • Mass noun, like “water” in English.

• ya – 3rd person masculine singular subject marker

  • Here it agrees with farashin (a masculine noun).
  • Roughly like saying it (for “the price”) as the grammatical subject.

• ƙaru – increased / went up

  • Intransitive verb: something itself becomes more (it increases).

• a – preposition in / at

  • General locative preposition.

• kasuwa – market

  • Place where buying/selling happens.

So the structure is:
[Farashin ruwa] [ya] [ƙaru] [a kasuwa] =
The price of water has increased in the market.

Why is it farashin ruwa instead of farashi na ruwa for “the price of water”?