Karas da kabeji suna da amfani ga lafiya.

A useful breakdown is:

• Karas = carrot / carrots
• da = and
• kabeji = cabbage
• suna da = they have / they are with
• amfani = use, benefit, usefulness
• ga = for, to
• lafiya = health, well-being

So the literal structure is something like:

Carrots and cabbage have benefit for health.

Natural English would usually be Carrots and cabbage are good for health or Carrots and cabbage are beneficial for health.

Because the two da words are doing different jobs:

• In Karas da kabeji, da means and.
• In suna da anfani, da is part of the pattern meaning have or be with.

So even though the spelling is the same, the function is different in each place.

suna matches the subject Karas da kabeji, which is plural because it refers to two things together.

In Hausa, it is very common to use an agreeing pronoun before the rest of the predicate. Here, suna helps form the expression:

suna da anfani = they have benefit / they are beneficial

So suna is there because the subject is plural, not because the sentence needs a separate word for they in English.

It looks the same, which can be confusing. For a learner, the easiest way to understand this sentence is to treat suna da as a common pattern meaning they have or they are with.

So in this sentence, suna da anfani is best understood as a possession/quality expression, not as an action like they are doing something.

Not exactly. amfani is a noun, meaning use, benefit, or usefulness.

Hausa often uses a noun phrase where English would use an adjective. So:

• da anfani literally means with benefit/usefulness
• but in natural English it means useful or beneficial

That is why suna da anfani can be translated as they are useful or they are beneficial.

ga lafiya means for health or to health.

Here, ga shows the thing that receives the benefit. So:

• amfani ga lafiya = benefit for health
• natural English: good for health or beneficial to health

So the sentence is not just saying the vegetables are useful in general; it specifically says they are beneficial for health.

Hausa does not have direct articles that work like English a/an and the.

That means a noun like kabeji can mean cabbage, a cabbage, or the cabbage, depending on context. In this sentence, the meaning is general, so Karas da kabeji is naturally understood as carrots and cabbage.

In Hausa, number is not always shown by changing the noun itself, especially with some borrowed words. Context often tells you whether the meaning is singular or plural.

Here, the whole subject is clearly plural because:

• it contains two nouns joined by da = and
• the agreement word is suna, which is plural

So even if karas and kabeji do not show an English-style plural ending, the sentence still clearly has a plural subject.

Yes. That is a very natural English translation.

A very literal translation would be:

Carrots and cabbage have benefit for health.

But natural English usually prefers:

• Carrots and cabbage are good for health
• Carrots and cabbage are good for your health
• Carrots and cabbage are beneficial for health

All of those capture the sense well.

Yes. lafiya is the same basic word.

Its core idea is health, well-being, or being fine, which is why it appears in both:

• health-related sentences like this one
• greetings and responses about how someone is doing

So seeing lafiya in different contexts is very normal.

The main change would be the agreement word. Because karas da kabeji is plural, the sentence uses suna. With just one noun, Hausa would use a singular agreement form instead.

So the pattern stays the same:

• singular noun + singular agreement + da anfani ga lafiya
• plural subject + suna da anfani ga lafiya

The exact singular form depends on the grammatical gender of the noun, so learners usually focus first on recognizing that suna here is plural agreement.