Fasinjoji sun tsira.

Sun is the 3rd person plural completive/perfective subject marker. In simple terms, it means something like they in a completed action.

So in Fasinjoji sun tsira, sun tells you:

• the subject is plural
• the action is viewed as completed

It is not exactly a separate English-style auxiliary verb, but it often gets translated as part of they survived / they have survived.

Because that is normal Hausa grammar.

When Hausa uses a full subject noun, it still usually includes the matching subject marker before the verb:

• Fasinjoji sun tsira
• literally something like Passengers they-survived

This is not considered redundant in Hausa. It is a standard pattern.

Usually, yes, but more precisely it is completive/perfective, not just simple past.

Depending on context, Fasinjoji sun tsira can be understood as:

• The passengers survived
• The passengers have survived

So the idea is that the surviving is a completed event or a completed result, not an ongoing process.

Tsira means to survive, to escape safely, to come through alive, or to be spared.

So it can be used in situations like:

• surviving an accident
• escaping danger
• coming through a disaster alive

The exact English wording depends on context, but survive is usually the best basic meaning.

Fasinjoji is plural: passengers.

The singular is usually fasinja: passenger.

So:

• fasinja = passenger
• fasinjoji = passengers

This is a borrowed word, adapted into Hausa.

Hausa does not require an article like English the or a/an in the same way.

So Fasinjoji can mean:

• passengers
• the passengers

The context tells you which is meant. In many real situations, a bare noun like this is perfectly natural.

Yes. This is a very normal Hausa sentence pattern:

• subject noun
• subject marker
• verb

So:

• Fasinjoji = subject noun
• sun = plural completive marker
• tsira = verb

If you removed the noun and just used the pronoun, you would get:

• Sun tsira = They survived

Because suna usually gives an ongoing, progressive, or habitual sense, not a completed one.

Compare:

• Fasinjoji sun tsira = the passengers survived / have survived
• Fasinjoji suna tsira = the passengers are surviving / survive (depending on context)

For a finished event, sun is the natural choice.

Sun is the normal form for a simple independent statement like this.

Suka often appears in other structures, especially:

• after focus
• in relative clauses
• in some narrative sequences

For example:

• Fasinjojin da suka tsira = the passengers who survived

But as a plain sentence by itself, Fasinjoji sun tsira is the expected form.

A rough beginner-friendly guide:

• Fasinjoji ≈ fa-sin-JO-ji
• sun ≈ soon but shorter
• tsira ≈ TSI-ra

A few useful notes:

• j sounds like English j in judge
• ts in Hausa is treated as a single consonant sound
• r is often a light tap or flap

Exact pronunciation also involves tone, but tone is usually not written in ordinary Hausa spelling.

You would say:

Fasinjoji ba su tsira ba.

In the negative, Hausa commonly uses:

• ba ... ba

And notice that sun changes to su in this pattern:

• positive: sun tsira
• negative: ba su tsira ba

So:

• Fasinjoji sun tsira = the passengers survived
• Fasinjoji ba su tsira ba = the passengers did not survive

Sometimes, yes, depending on the situation.

Because tsira is about having come through danger safely, sun tsira can imply a result like:

• they survived
• they made it
• they are safe now

But the core meaning is still that they survived some danger or threat.