Tazarar maki biyu ce!

A helpful word-by-word breakdown is:

• tazarar = gap / difference of ...
• maki = points
• biyu = two
• ce = the feminine equational marker, roughly is in this kind of sentence

So the structure is basically:

• gap-of points two is

More natural English would be something like It is a two-point gap or The difference is two points.

Because tazara is being linked to what comes after it: maki biyu.

In Hausa, when a noun is followed by another noun phrase in an of relationship, the first noun often takes a linking form. Here:

• tazara = gap / difference
• tazarar maki biyu = gap of two points

So the final -r is doing the job that English often does with of.

Ce is the equational marker used in this kind of sentence, roughly like is in English.

Hausa often makes statements of identification or description without a normal verb like English to be. Instead, it uses ne or ce at the end.

So:

• Tazarar maki biyu ce = It is a two-point gap / The gap is two points

Because the head noun here is tazara, which is feminine in Hausa.

In this pattern:

• ne is typically used with masculine nouns
• ce is typically used with feminine nouns

Since tazara is feminine, the sentence ends with ce.

In Hausa, numbers normally come after the noun they count.

So:

• maki biyu = points two = two points
• mutane biyu = two people
• kwallaye biyu = two goals

That word order is normal Hausa.

Because Hausa does not always need an explicit dummy subject the way English does.

English often says:

• It is a two-point gap

But Hausa can simply give the noun phrase and then the equational marker:

• Tazarar maki biyu ce

So the idea of it is understood from context rather than stated directly.

It can be understood either way depending on context.

Hausa does not have articles exactly like English a and the, so context does a lot of the work. Because of that, the sentence may be translated naturally as:

• It is a two-point gap
• The gap is two points
• The difference is two points

All of those can fit the same Hausa sentence.

Here it means points, and the number biyu makes the quantity clear.

In practice, you can think of:

• maki ɗaya = one point
• maki biyu = two points

So even if the noun form itself does not change the way English point/points does, the number tells you how many.

Yes, that is a very common context.

Because of maki meaning points, the sentence naturally sounds like something from:

• sports
• game scores
• league tables
• competitions
• exams or marking systems

The noun tazara by itself can mean a gap, distance, or difference more generally, but maki makes this sentence clearly about points.

The head noun is tazara.

That matters because:

• it determines the basic meaning of the whole phrase: a gap/difference
• it is the noun that takes the linking form: tazarar
• it is also why the sentence uses ce, since tazara is feminine

So even though maki biyu gives important extra information, the whole phrase is still centered on tazara.

You could use that as a learning aid, but it is not natural English.

A very literal gloss can help you see the Hausa structure:

• tazarar = gap-of
• maki biyu = two points
• ce = is

But when translating into normal English, it is better to say:

• It is a two-point gap
• The difference is two points

Those sound much more natural.