Questions & Answers about Da safe Baba ya je wurin wanzami domin ya yi aski.
What does da safe mean, and why is da used here?
Da safe is a fixed time expression meaning in the morning or early in the morning.
Here, da does not simply mean with. In Hausa, da is used in several idiomatic expressions, including some expressions of time. So for a learner, it is best to remember da safe as a whole chunk.
Who is Baba in this sentence?
Baba is the subject of the sentence.
Depending on context, Baba can be:
- a personal name,
- father,
- or a respectful way to refer to an older man.
In this sentence, you can simply treat it as the person who went to the barber. Hausa does not use articles like a or the, so Baba appears by itself.
Why is it ya je and not just je?