An soke tikiti saboda jadawalin ya canza.

An is an impersonal subject marker. It often means something like someone, they, or people without saying exactly who. In English, this is often translated with a passive:

An soke tikiti
= Someone/they canceled the ticket
= more naturally in English, The ticket was canceled

So an helps Hausa express an idea that English often expresses with was + past participle.

Because an is used precisely when the doer is unknown, unimportant, or not being mentioned.

So the focus is on the event itself: the ticket got canceled.
If the speaker wanted to say who did it, they would use a normal subject instead.

Yes, in many contexts that is the best way to understand it.

Literally, an soke is closer to they canceled or someone canceled, but in natural English it is often translated as a passive:

• An soke taro = The meeting was canceled
• An soke tikiti = The ticket was canceled

So it is not a passive built exactly the same way as English, but it often functions like one in translation.

Soke means to cancel, to call off, or to strike out/annul, depending on context.

In this sentence, it clearly means cancel:

An soke tikiti = The ticket was canceled

Because Hausa does not have articles like English a/an/the.

A bare noun like tikiti can mean:

• a ticket
• the ticket
• sometimes just ticket/tickets in a general sense

The exact meaning comes from context. In this sentence, the context tells you which ticket is meant.

Saboda means because, due to, or on account of.

It introduces the reason:

saboda jadawalin ya canza
= because the schedule changed

So the whole sentence gives an event and then the reason for it.

That is normal Hausa grammar.

When the subject is a full noun, Hausa very often still uses a subject pronoun with it. So:

jadawalin ya canza
literally works like
the schedule it changed

In natural English, of course, you just say the schedule changed.

So ya is not extra by mistake; it is part of the normal Hausa sentence pattern.

Because ya is the 3rd person singular masculine subject marker.

In this sentence, jadawalin takes masculine singular agreement, so Hausa uses ya:

jadawalin ya canza
= the schedule changed

If the noun were feminine singular, you would normally expect ta instead.

The base form is often jadawali, but in actual Hausa you will often see a form like jadawalin.

That final -n is a very common Hausa linking form that shows up a lot in connected structures. For a beginner, the key thing to recognize is simply that:

jadawalin ya canza
means the schedule changed

You do not need to master every rule about -n/-r immediately, but you should get used to seeing nouns appear in forms like this.

canza means change.

So ya canza means:

• it changed
• it has changed

depending on context.

In this sentence, the natural English translation is changed:

jadawalin ya canza
= the schedule changed

Because Hausa does not build this idea the same way English does.

English says:

The ticket was canceled

Hausa instead uses the impersonal construction:

An soke tikiti

So rather than using a verb like was plus canceled, Hausa uses an + verb to express the idea.

It has two parts:

An soke tikiti
= main statement: The ticket was canceled

saboda jadawalin ya canza
= reason: because the schedule changed

So the pattern is:

[main event] + saboda + [reason]

Yes. If you want to mention who did the canceling, you can use a normal subject.

For example:

Sun soke tikiti saboda jadawalin ya canza.
= They canceled the ticket because the schedule changed.

The original sentence uses an because the doer is not the important part.

Yes, fairly similar.

The sentence goes:

An soke tikiti
saboda jadawalin ya canza

So it is basically:

The ticket was canceled because the schedule changed

That makes this sentence relatively easy for English speakers to follow once they understand an and the subject marker ya.