Questions & Answers about Yau na ga alƙalami na a ƙarƙashin kujera.
Why does the sentence have na twice?
They are two different na's with two different jobs:
- na in Yau na ga ... = I in the completive/perfective form, so na ga means I saw / I have seen
- na in alƙalami na = my
So even though they look the same, they do not mean the same thing here.
What exactly does na ga mean?
na ga means I saw or I have seen, depending on context.
In this sentence, with Yau (today), the most natural English meaning is:
- Today I saw ...
The verb involved is gani (to see), and ga is the form used here after na.
Why is my pen written as alƙalami na instead of putting my before the noun?
In Hausa, possessive words like my usually come after the noun, not before it.
So:
- alƙalami na = pen my literally
- natural English: my pen
That is normal Hausa word order.
Also, the possessive form changes depending on the noun class. Here takes , so = .