A ƙauyenmu ƙauyawa sukan tashi da safiya su je kiwo kafin rana ta fito sosai.

They are related but not the same:

• ƙauyenmu = ƙauye-n-mu

  • ƙauye = village
  • -n = linking/genitive marker
  • mu = our
    → ƙauyenmu = our village

• ƙauyawa = ƙauye + -wa

  • The suffix -wa / -awa often forms “people of X” (demonym):
    • Hausa → Hausawa (Hausa people)
    • Lagos → Lagosawa (people of Lagos)
    • ƙauye → ƙauyawa (villagers, people from the village)

So:

• A ƙauyenmu = In our village (place)
• ƙauyawa = the villagers (people)

The sentence literally starts: “In our village, the villagers usually…”

sukan is:

• su = they (3rd person plural subject pronoun)
• kan = a marker of habitual aspect (“usually, tend to, generally”)

So su kan tashi = they usually get up. In writing, this is often contracted to sukan tashi, just like English “do not” → “don’t”.

Functionally, sukan tells you:

• This is not a one-time event
• It is something done regularly / characteristically

So ƙauyawa sukan tashi… means the villagers usually/typically get up…

Both are possible, but they are not identical in nuance.

• sukan tashi

  • Uses kan (habitual)
  • Emphasises a customary, typical behaviour (“they usually / they tend to”)

• suna tashi

  • Uses na (progressive / continuous)
  • Often means “they are getting up” (right now / these days), and by extension can describe a habit, but less strongly “customary” than sukan.

In your sentence:

• ƙauyawa sukan tashi da safiya…
  → The villagers usually get up in the morning… (general statement of how things are)

You could say:

• ƙauyawa suna tashi da safiya su je kiwo
  This is understandable, but it can sound more like describing what they are doing regularly in a given period, not quite as proverbially/habitually as sukan.

For a neutral “this is what they generally do”, sukan tashi is the most idiomatic choice here.

Yes, it is normal and basically necessary in Hausa.

Breakdown:

• ƙauyawa sukan tashi da safiya
  → the villagers usually get up in the morning
• su je kiwo
  → they go to graze/herd (the animals)

In Hausa:

• Each finite verb normally has its own subject marker (like su, ya, ta, etc.).

• When you have a sequence of actions with the same subject, you typically repeat the pronoun for the second verb:

  • Sukan tashi da safiya su je kiwo.
    They usually get up in the morning (and) go herding.

You cannot simply drop the second su and say *sukan tashi da safiya je kiwo; that is ungrammatical in standard Hausa. The second su marks that je has “they” as its subject and links it as a following action/purpose.

tashi is a very flexible verb in Hausa. It can mean:

• to get up / stand up (from lying or sitting)
• to wake up
• to set off / depart / take off (e.g. a car, a plane, a person leaving a place)

In the expression tashi da safiya in your sentence, the meaning is:

• “to get up (wake up and rise) in the morning”

So ƙauyawa sukan tashi da safiya = the villagers usually get up / wake up in the morning.

Literally:

• tashi = get up / wake up
• da safiya = in the morning / early in the morning

The preposition da literally means “with”, but in time expressions it often corresponds to English “in/at”:

• da yamma = in the evening
• da dare = at night
• da safe / da safiya = in the morning

So tashi da safiya is an idiomatic time expression:

• tashi da safiya ≈ get up in the morning / get up early in the morning

You can hear both da safiya and a safiya, but they are not used in exactly the same way:

• da safiya / da safe

  • Very common, natural for “in the morning / early in the morning”
  • Strongly associated with routine times:
    • Ina wanka da safiya. – I bathe in the morning.
    • Sukan tashi da safiya. – They usually get up in the morning.

• a safiya

  • Possible, but less idiomatic for this habitual-routine sense
  • a is the general preposition “in/at/on” for place and time, so a safiya would be understood, but here da safiya sounds more native.

In your sentence, da safiya is the natural, expected choice for a regular morning habit.

kiwo is a noun meaning herding / grazing / rearing livestock.

• It refers to the activity of taking animals (cows, goats, sheep, etc.) out to graze, look after them, feed them, and bring them back.
• So je kiwo literally is “go (for) herding/grazing”.

In this sentence:

• su je kiwo ≈ they go to herd the animals / they go out to graze their animals.

It is not generic “farm work” (planting, weeding, etc.); it is specifically animal care/grazing.

rana in Hausa can mean:

1. Day / daytime (as opposed to night)
2. The sun

Which meaning is used depends on context and common expressions.

In kafin rana ta fito sosai, the meaning is “sun”, because:

• fito = to come out, appear
• “the day coming out” is unusual, but “the sun coming out” is a natural image.

So rana ta fito sosai = the sun comes out fully → the sun has fully risen / it is fully daylight.

Hence the whole part:

• kafin rana ta fito sosai = before the sun is fully out / before it is fully daylight.

In rana ta fito sosai:

• rana = sun/day
• ta = 3rd person singular feminine subject pronoun (“she/it”)

Hausa nouns have grammatical gender (masculine or feminine), and rana is grammatically feminine, so its pronoun is ta:

• rana ta fito – the sun came out
• rana ta yi zafi – the sun is hot
• rana ta ɓaci – the day went badly

So ta here just agrees with rana in gender and means “it (she), the sun”.

sosai is an intensifying adverb meaning:

• very, a lot, really, completely, fully

Common uses:

• ya gaji sosai – he is very tired
• ta yi kyau sosai – she/it is very beautiful
• na ji yunwa sosai – I am very hungry

In rana ta fito sosai, it gives the sense:

• the sun has come out fully / properly / completely
  → before the sun is fully up / before it is really daylight

So it strengthens the idea that they leave early, not just any time after sunrise.

kafin means “before”. It can be followed by:

1. A noun:

   • kafin rana – before day / before daytime
   • kafin azumi – before the fast

2. A clause (a whole mini-sentence):

   • kafin rana ta fito sosai – before the sun has fully come out
   • kafin su dawo – before they return

In your sentence:

• kafin introduces a time point that has not yet been reached at the time of the villagers’ action.
• Structure:
  • [ƙauyawa sukan tashi da safiya su je kiwo] kafin [rana ta fito sosai].
  • They usually get up in the morning and go herding *before the sun fully comes out.*

So kafin + clause works just like English “before + clause” (before the sun fully rises, before they come, etc.).

Yes, you have some flexibility, but the given order is very natural.

• A ƙauyenmu ƙauyawa sukan tashi da safiya…
  • Starts with A ƙauyenmu = In our village → sets the location as the topic.
  • Then ƙauyawa = the villagers as subject.

You could say:

• Ƙauyawan ƙauyenmu sukan tashi da safiya…
  (The villagers of our village usually get up in the morning…)

Putting ƙauyawa a ƙauyenmu… is possible, but the original:

• A ƙauyenmu, ƙauyawa sukan…

sounds more like good, natural topic–comment structure:
“As for our village, the villagers usually…”

So: some re-ordering is grammatically possible, but the given sentence is already very idiomatic Hausa.