Hauwa ta ce kyamara ta waya tana da kyau, amma kyamara babba ta fi ta.

Not exactly. The form ta shows up several times, but it is doing different jobs:

• Hauwa ta ce: ta = she (feminine subject pronoun)
• kyamara ta waya: ta = a linker meaning something like of with a feminine noun
• tana: contains the same feminine agreement element; here it means it/she is
• ta fi ta: the first ta = it as the subject, and the last ta = it as the object

So the shape is the same, but the grammar role changes depending on where it appears.

Because Hausa normally uses a subject pronoun with the verb, even when the subject noun is already stated.

So:

• Hauwa ta ce = literally something like Hauwa, she said

Since Hauwa is female, the pronoun is ta. If the subject were a male name, you would expect ya instead.

Because Hausa has grammatical gender. A noun can be grammatically masculine or feminine even if it refers to an object.

In this sentence, kyamara is treated as feminine, so it triggers feminine agreement:

• ta waya
• tana da kyau
• ta fi ta

This is grammar, not biological sex. English usually just says it, but Hausa still shows gender agreement.

Literally, it is camera of phone.

The ta here is a genitive/possessive linker. It connects kyamara with waya and gives the sense of:

• phone camera
• the camera of a phone
• a phone’s camera

Because kyamara is feminine, the linker is ta.

ce means said.

So Hauwa ta ce ... means Hauwa said ...

Hausa often leaves out the equivalent of English that when introducing what someone said or thought. So:

• Hauwa ta ce kyamara ta waya tana da kyau = Hauwa said (that) the phone camera is good

You can sometimes see cewa used for that, but it is often omitted in natural sentences like this.

tana da kyau is a very common Hausa way to say that something is good or nice.

Here:

• tana = it is / it is being in a present-imperfective sense
• da kyau = literally something like with goodness or having goodness

So the whole phrase means it is good / it looks good / it is nice.

You should learn da kyau as a very common expression.

In normal English translation here, it means is good.

Even though the Hausa form is imperfective/continuous, this is just the normal way to talk about a present state in many contexts. So you should not force a very literal English progressive reading like is being good.

In this sentence, the natural meaning is simply that the phone camera is good.

Because adjectives usually come after the noun in Hausa.

So:

• kyamara babba = big camera

This is the normal noun + adjective order. English says big camera, but Hausa typically says camera big.

fi is the key comparative word here. It means something like surpass, exceed, or be better than, depending on context.

So:

• kyamara babba ta fi ta

breaks down as:

• first ta = it = the big camera
• fi = surpasses / is better than
• last ta = it = the phone camera

So the meaning is:

• the big camera is better than it
• or more naturally, the big camera is better than the phone camera

Hausa does not need a separate word exactly like English than here; fi already carries the comparison.

Because Hausa, like English, often uses a pronoun instead of repeating the whole noun phrase.

So instead of saying:

• kyamara babba ta fi kyamara ta waya

the sentence says:

• kyamara babba ta fi ta

The last ta refers back to kyamara ta waya. This avoids repetition and sounds more natural once the listener already knows what is being compared.