A bayan gidanmu akwai kaji da akuya guda biyu.

the house

Breakdown of A bayan gidanmu akwai kaji da akuya guda biyu.

• da: and
• akwai: there is
• a bayan: behind

Questions & Answers about A bayan gidanmu akwai kaji da akuya guda biyu.

What does a bayan mean exactly, and why do we need both words?

A is a general preposition meaning in / at / on, used for locations.
Bayan comes from baya (back) and here means behind / at the back of.

So a bayan gidanmu literally means at the back/behind our house.
You will also hear bayan gidanmu without a; both are common and grammatical, with a just making the location sense very clear.

How is gidanmu formed? Why isn’t it gida mu as two words?

Gidanmu breaks down like this:

• gida – house
• -n – a linking sound (genitive linker)
• mu – we / our

So gidanmu = our house (literally: house-of-us).
You can’t say gida mu as two separate words; the possessive pronoun must attach to the noun (with the linking -n here).

What exactly is akwai? Is it a verb like “there is/are,” and does it change for singular or plural?