Ni bana son tafarnuwa da yawa a cikin miya.

Ni means I / me. In this sentence, it is mainly there for emphasis or topic marking: As for me, I don’t like a lot of garlic in soup.

In many situations, you can leave it out and simply say:

Ba na son tafarnuwa da yawa a cikin miya.

That still means I don’t like a lot of garlic in soup.
So ni is not always required; it often adds a slight contrast or emphasis.

Bana son means I do not like or I do not want, depending on context.

It breaks down like this:

• ba ... = negation
• na = I
• son = like / want / love

So:

• Ina son... = I like / want...
• Ba na son... or bana son... = I do not like / want...

In this sentence, the natural meaning is I don’t like.

It can mean both, depending on context.

For example:

• Ina son ruwa. = I want water or I like water, depending on the situation.
• Ba na son tafarnuwa da yawa a cikin miya. is most naturally understood as I don’t like a lot of garlic in soup.

So learners need to rely on context. In food preferences, son often comes across as like.

You may see both bana and ba na.

They represent the same basic structure:

• ba na son
• bana son

Both are understood as I do not like / want.

In teaching materials, grammar explanations often show the parts separately as ba na so the structure is easier to see. In actual writing, many people also write it together as bana.

Tafarnuwa usually means garlic as a substance or ingredient, not necessarily one single clove.

So in this sentence, it means garlic in general, especially garlic used in cooking.

If you wanted to be very specific about a clove, the wording would usually need more context. Here, the sentence is about the amount of garlic in soup overall.

Da yawa means a lot, many, or much, depending on what it describes.

So:

• tafarnuwa da yawa = a lot of garlic

This can confuse learners because da often means and or with in other sentences. But in the expression da yawa, it is part of a fixed phrase meaning a lot / many / much.

So here, da yawa should be learned as a unit.

It describes tafarnuwa.

So the structure is:

• ba na son = I don’t like
• tafarnuwa da yawa = a lot of garlic
• a cikin miya = in soup

So the sentence means that the speaker dislikes a large amount of garlic in the soup, not that there is a lot of soup.

A cikin miya literally means in the inside of soup or more naturally in soup.

Breakdown:

• a = in / at / on depending on context
• cikin = inside
• miya = soup / sauce / stew, depending on usage

So a cikin is a common Hausa way to express inside / in.

English usually just says in the soup, but Hausa often uses this fuller structure.

Not always. Miya can refer to soup, sauce, or a liquid dish eaten with staple foods, depending on region and context.

So if the translation given to the learner is soup, that is fine, but in real usage miya can cover a wider range than English soup does.

That is very common in language learning: one Hausa word may overlap with several English food words.

Hausa does not use articles in the same way English does.

English often needs words like:

• a
• an
• the

Hausa usually does not.

So:

• tafarnuwa can mean garlic
• miya can mean soup / the soup / some soup

The exact interpretation comes from context. That is normal in Hausa.

Yes. A very natural version is:

Ba na son tafarnuwa da yawa a cikin miya.

That already means I don’t like a lot of garlic in soup.

Adding Ni makes it more like:

• As for me...
• I, personally...

So both versions are correct, but the one with ni is slightly more emphatic.

The sentence follows this rough pattern:

Ni + bana son + tafarnuwa da yawa + a cikin miya

That is:

• subject/emphasis = Ni
• negative verb phrase = bana son
• object = tafarnuwa da yawa
• location/context phrase = a cikin miya

So Hausa here is not very far from English word order:

• I
• do not like
• a lot of garlic
• in soup

That makes this sentence fairly approachable for English speakers once the negative form ba na is understood.