Hausa Nouns
Welcome to the third Hausa lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Hausa to help you practice your daily phrases.
potatoes dankali |
tomatoes tumatir |
onions albasa |
carrots karas |
fruits ya'yan itace |
apples aful |
bananas ayaba |
oranges lemu |
Nouns Grammar Rules
In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.
| Grammar + Rules - Hausa |
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| do you have milk? [verb + noun] ka/ki/kuna da madara? |
| I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] ina da madara, da kofi |
| he has three apples [number + plural noun] yana da 'ya'yan afil ukuk |
| she only has one apple [number + singular noun] afil daya kawai gare ta |
| we live in a small house [adjective + noun] muna zaune a wani gida ƙarami |
| I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] naji dadin karin kummalonmu |
The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.
bread burodi |
milk madara |
butter man shanu |
cheese cukwi |
coffee kofi |
sandwich sanwic |
meat nama |
chicken naman kaza |
fish kifi |
breakfast karin kumallo |
lunch abincin rana |
dinner buda-baki |
Conversation in Hausa
Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.
| English - Hausa |
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| Do you speak (English/ Hausa)? kana/kina jin turancin ingilishi? |
| Just a little kaɗan |
| I like Hausa ina son hausa |
| Can I practice with you? na iya yi tare da ku? |
| How old are you? shekaran ka/ki/ku nawa? |
| I'm thirty three years old shekaruna talatin da uku |
| It was nice talking to you na ji dadin zancenmu |
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