Cunkoso ya jawo soke rajista.

Ya is the 3rd person masculine singular perfective marker. In Hausa, even when you already name the subject, you still normally use this subject marker before the verb.

So the pattern is:

Cunkoso + ya + jawo
congestion + it (masc.) + caused

Because cunkoso is treated as a masculine noun in Hausa. Hausa nouns have grammatical gender, so the subject marker has to agree with the noun’s gender.

• ya = masculine singular
• ta = feminine singular

This is grammatical gender, not biological gender.

Literally, jawo can mean pull or draw. But very often it is used more figuratively to mean cause, bring about, or lead to.

So in this sentence, jawo means caused or led to.

The sentence breaks down like this:

Cunkoso = the subject
ya = subject/aspect marker
jawo = verb
soke rajista = the action/result that was caused

So the overall structure is:

Subject + subject marker + verb + complement

Soke rajista means something like cancel registration, canceling registration, or the cancellation of registration, depending on how you translate it into English.

In this sentence, it functions as the thing that was caused by the congestion. English often has to choose between an infinitive translation and a noun-like translation, but Hausa is more flexible here.

It is best understood as a verb used in a noun-like way.

That is very common in Hausa. After verbs like jawo, another verb can appear to express the resulting action. So soke still has verbal force, but in English we may translate it as:

• to cancel
• canceling
• the cancellation of

All three can be reasonable depending on context.

Because Hausa does not always need a separate word equivalent to English to before another action. After a verb like jawo, Hausa can directly follow with the caused action.

So where English might say:

• caused registration to be canceled
• led to canceling the registration

Hausa can simply say:

ya jawo soke rajista

Yes. Rajista is a loanword, ultimately from English register/registration. In Hausa usage, it often refers to registration, enrollment, or something entered in a register.

So soke rajista means cancel registration or cancellation of registration.

It is in the perfective aspect. In many contexts, that is translated into English as a simple past:

caused

Depending on the wider context, English could also sometimes use something like has caused, but caused is the most straightforward translation here.

Because Hausa does not use articles the way English does. There is no direct equivalent of a/an/the that must appear before nouns in ordinary sentences like this.

So cunkoso and rajista can be understood from context as:

• congestion
• the congestion
• registration
• the registration

English translation has to add the article if needed.

Yes, absolutely. Cunkoso is often used for traffic congestion or a traffic jam. If the context is roads, transport, or late arrivals, that would be a very natural reading.

So the sentence could mean something like:

Traffic congestion caused the cancellation of registration.

Yes. A more explicit version could be:

Cunkoso ya sa aka soke rajista.

That means roughly Congestion caused the registration to be canceled.

In your original sentence, jawo soke rajista is more compact, but it expresses a very similar idea.