Questions & Answers about Da safe na yi wanka, sannan na tafi aiki.
Da safe means in the morning or this morning, depending on context.
Literally, safe is morning, and da is a very common Hausa word with several uses. In this expression, da safe functions like a time phrase meaning in the morning / early in the day.
So in this sentence, it sets the time for what follows: Da safe na yi wanka = In the morning, I bathed / I took a bath.
In this sentence, na is the marker used with I in this completed-action pattern.
So:
- na yi wanka = I bathed / I took a bath
- na tafi aiki = I went to work
A learner will often notice that Hausa does not always work like English, where the subject pronoun and tense are separated clearly as I went, I did, etc. In Hausa, na helps express I together with the relevant tense/aspect pattern.
So you can think of na here as part of the normal way to say I did... / I went... in a completed sequence of events.