Breakdown of Magudanar tana a bayan gidan.
Questions & Answers about Magudanar tana a bayan gidan.
Magudana is the basic noun form. Magudanar is the specific/definite form, often corresponding to the drain or that drain in English.
In Hausa, this idea is often shown by a noun ending rather than by a separate word like the. For a feminine singular noun, that ending is often -r.
Here, tana works roughly like it is in English.
More specifically, it is the form Hausa uses here for a feminine singular subject in a locational sentence. Since magudanar is feminine singular, tana is the matching form.
Because that is normal Hausa sentence structure.
Even when the subject noun is stated openly, Hausa usually still includes a matching subject marker in the clause. So Magudanar tana... is not unusual repetition; it is standard grammar.
Yes, grammatically it is feminine.
This is grammatical gender, not biological gender. In Hausa, many inanimate nouns are treated as masculine or feminine, and that affects agreement words like .