Mun kewaye unguwa.

Mun is the Hausa subject marker for we in the completed/perfective form.

So in this sentence, mun means something like we plus the idea that the action is viewed as completed.

Why not mu? Because mu is the basic pronoun we/us, but Hausa usually uses special subject forms in ordinary verbal sentences. Compare:

• mun ... = we did / we have done
• muna ... = we are doing / we do
• za mu ... = we will do

So Mun kewaye unguwa is the normal way to say this with a completed action.

More exactly, it is in the perfective/completed aspect.

In English, that often gets translated as:

• we surrounded ...
• we went around ...
• we have surrounded ...

The best English tense depends on context. Hausa often focuses more on whether the action is completed than on choosing a tense in the same way English does.

The pattern is:

subject marker + verb + object

So here:

• Mun = subject marker, we
• kewaye = verb
• unguwa = object

That is a very common Hausa sentence pattern.

Because unguwa is the direct object of kewaye in this sentence.

Hausa often puts the object directly after the verb, without any extra word in between. English may sometimes use a preposition in similar expressions, but Hausa does not have to do that if the verb already carries that meaning.

So the structure kewaye unguwa is normal.

Hausa does not usually use separate articles the way English does.

That means a noun like unguwa can often be understood from context as:

• a neighborhood
• the neighborhood

English has to choose a or the, but Hausa often leaves that to context.

Kewaye is the verb in the sentence. Depending on context, it can carry ideas like:

• surround
• go around
• encircle

The exact English choice depends on the meaning already given in your lesson or conversation. That is normal: one Hausa verb can sometimes match more than one English wording.

No. If the action is ongoing, you would normally use a different subject form, such as muna.

For example:

• Mun kewaye unguwa = completed action
• Muna kewaye unguwa = ongoing/habitual action, depending on context

So mun and muna are not interchangeable.

Not as the normal completed sentence.

For this kind of statement, Hausa wants mun, not plain mu.

Plain mu appears in other structures, for example:

• za mu kewaye unguwa = we will ...
• emphatic structures where mu is used separately

But for the straightforward completed sentence here, Mun kewaye unguwa is the correct pattern.

A simple learner-friendly breakdown is:

• Mun → moon but shorter
• kewaye → keh-WAH-yeh
• unguwa → oon-GOO-wah

Syllable-by-syllable, you can think of it as:

Mun | ke-wa-ye | un-gu-wa

That is only an approximation, but it is a useful starting point.

No. Nothing in Mun kewaye unguwa marks masculine or feminine.

The subject is we, and Hausa does not mark gender here. That is one reason this sentence is fairly straightforward grammatically.