Wannan ita ce shaida.

Wannan means this. It is a demonstrative, used to point out something near the speaker or something currently being identified.

So in this sentence, wannan is the this part of This is ...

A learner often expects Hausa to match English word-for-word, but Hausa structures this kind of sentence differently.

• wannan = this
• ita ce = an identifying/copular pattern, roughly it is
• shaida = the noun being identified

So Wannan ita ce shaida is literally closer to This, it is the evidence/testimony/certificate.

The ita is not redundant in Hausa; it is part of a very natural identification pattern.

Hausa does not always use a separate verb exactly like English is in present-tense identification sentences.

Here, the job of is is carried by the pattern ita ce.

A useful beginner way to think of it is:

• ita ce ≈ it is / this is for a feminine referent
• shi ne is the comparable masculine pattern

So the sentence does have the meaning is, but it is expressed in a Hausa way, not with a separate verb identical to English to be.

Because shaida is treated as feminine in Hausa, so the sentence uses the feminine agreement pattern:

• ita ... ce for feminine
• shi ... ne for masculine

So if the identified noun is feminine, ita ce is the expected form.

Yes. Hausa has a masculine/feminine agreement system, and it shows up in places like pronouns and copular markers.

In this sentence, shaida is treated as feminine, which is why you get ita ce.

For an English speaker, the important practical point is: you often need to learn nouns together with the agreement they take, because that affects forms like shi/ne versus ita/ce.

Yes, that is also a possible Hausa sentence.

Wannan shaida ce is a shorter identifying pattern, and learners will often hear that kind of structure too.

The longer version Wannan ita ce shaida is fuller and can sound a bit more explicit or emphatic, especially when identifying something clearly or contrastively.

So both patterns are useful:

• Wannan shaida ce
• Wannan ita ce shaida

Hausa does not have articles that work exactly like English a/an and the.

That means a noun like shaida can often be understood from context as:

• evidence
• the evidence
• a testimony
• the certificate, etc.

English forces you to choose an article, but Hausa often leaves that to context.

For a beginner, it is best to learn this sentence as a set pattern:

• Wannan
  • ita ce
    • noun

That is a normal and useful way to identify something.

Hausa can vary structure in other contexts for focus or style, but this pattern is standard and safe to copy when you want to say This is ... with a feminine noun.

A simple approximation for an English speaker is:

WAN-nan EE-ta cheh SHAI-da

A few notes:

• ita sounds like ee-ta
• ce is pronounced with c = ch, so ce sounds like cheh
• shaida has shai like English shy

Also, Hausa is a tonal language, but tone is usually not written in normal spelling, so beginners usually learn the basic segment pronunciation first.

Not always. Depending on context, shaida can refer to ideas such as:

• evidence
• proof
• testimony
• certificate
• sometimes related legal or formal senses

So even if the sentence’s meaning has already been given to you, it is useful to know that shaida is a context-dependent word rather than a perfect one-to-one match with just one English noun.