Questions & Answers about Dardumar tana cikin falo.
Darduma is the basic noun, meaning rug / carpet / mat.
Dardumar is the form meaning the rug / the carpet.
The ending -r here is a common feminine singular definite ending in Hausa. So in this sentence, dardumar is best understood as the carpet.
Hausa normally uses an agreeing subject marker in this kind of sentence, even when the subject noun is already stated.
So the structure is roughly:
Dardumar + tana + cikin falo
The carpet + is + in the living room
In natural English, tana often gets translated as is here, although Hausa grammar is not working in exactly the same way as English to be.
Because darduma is grammatically feminine in Hausa.
Hausa has grammatical gender, and the agreement word has to match the noun.
So with a feminine singular noun, you use tana in this kind of sentence.
This is grammatical gender, not biological sex. Even inanimate things like rugs can be grammatically feminine.