jacabi:

Sannu de zuwa namu monitress! Our ogas, paretomaster, jbluv55, silkmoth33: can we move to singular and plural?
boy .........................yaro
boys ..................... samari
girl.................... yarinya
girls .................... en'nata
child .................. da, as in dangote ( son of gote)
children ................... yara
man ..................... namiji
men .................... maza
woman .................. mace
women ................. matta
house ................... gida
houses ................. gidaje
motor .................... mota
motors ............. motocci

AfricanApple:
walks into abandoned class quietly*

I know I derailed dis thread seriously with d miss Nl ish, class members forgive me o. but even without me d lessons should be going on na or are u guys no longer interested in learning

cc: jacabi



gottoboy

wasak

gottoboy:

Αм fully interested! From ᵗᴴᵋ scratch

kingphemy:
Following...

AfricanApple:
I know, dats why I mentioned u.
what u have to do is, make a list of the words u will like to know their meaning and tag either of these people : PARETOMASTER, jbluv55, snowprince07

AfricanApple:
I know, dats why I mentioned u.
what u have to do is, make a list of the words u will like to know their meaning and tag either of these people : PARETOMASTER, jbluv55, snowprince07

gottoboy:

Ơ̴̴̴͡k tomorrow will do! Besides αм still sticking to you normal lectures though, make sure any update ℓ̊ shud βε tagged

jacabi:
@paretomaster:
letter(alphabet)
letters
letter(message)
letters
plate = farantin
plates = faranti
book = littafin
books = littattafai
shoe = takalmi
shoes = takalma
table = tebur
tables
chair = kujera
chairs = kujeru
cup = kofin
cups
bottle = kwalban
bottles
farmer = manomi
farmers = manoma
yam = doya
yams
tomato = tumatir
tomatoes
pepper = barkono
peppers
tree = itace
trees
teacher(male and female) = malam and malami
teachers = malamai
student = dalibi
students = dalibai
cloth
clothes
orange = lemu
oranges

Jbluv55:
The ones I believe I can translate are below:

Facosco:
This thread is very educative hope I will catch up in learning the language

Joslyn:
Mallams and Mallama. Pls,translate
1. I will flog/spank you.
2. I am not happy with you.
3. Can you read?
4. Go and put on your clothes.
5. Stop playing.
6. Why are you crying?

AfricanApple:
hello

Joslyn:
Hi, I'm still waiting for translation

AfricanApple:
don't tell me nobody has translated it for u

let me tag someone to do dat

AfricanApple:
I can't see a sign that you are learning

AfricanApple:
kentnickole, I noticed u no longer attend classes

Kentnickole:


You are right Ma'am been busy. Have I missd much?

Facosco:
no mind me @africanapple I will still catch up, currenly don't av much time to learn

AfricanApple:
Eya, not much though, u can always scroll through

Kentnickole:


Okay... Thank.
How about the beauty contest?

AfricanApple:
Lol, I made it to d semi finale but didn't make it to d final

Kentnickole:


Dont let that bother you I know you are beautiful you hv won smone's heart...

AfricanApple:
thanks jare, I saw your votes

in order not to derail, let me take u out

Sircomeference:
Nawa o.... I thought this thread was meant to teach us hausa

Biko Na

Jbluv55:

Good morning all, here are some phrases for questioning and querying in hausa .

[b]Note the following hausa words and what they mean in the write-up below:

na = me
ka/ki = you(male/female 2nd person singular)
Ya/Ta = He/She
shi/ta = him/her
Ku = you all (plural)
Su = they/them
Mu = We/our

ENGLISH to HAUSA
Why(For what reason)? Me ya sa(Don me)?
Why are you(all) crying? Don me ka/ki(ku) ke kuka?
Why are you(all) abusing me? Don me ka/ki(ku) ke Zagi na?
Why is jacabi not eating food? Don me jacabi ba ya ci abinci?
Why is SpcAgtOko not talking? Don me SpcAgtOko ba ta magana?

What? Menene or Me(for short)?
What is your name? Me sunan ka/ki?
What is his/her name? Me sunan shi/ta?
What is happening? Me Yake faruwa?
What do you(all) want? Me ka/ki(ku) ke so?
What do you(all) have? Me ka/ki(ku) ke da shi?
What does KingTom have? Me KingTom yake da shi?
What does Joslyn have? Me Joslyn take da shi?
What happened? Me ya faru?
What did he do(He did what)? Me ya yi(Ya yi me)?
Whatever he does is not good! Ko menene ya ke yi ba ya da kyau!
What are you looking for? Menene ka/ki(ku) ke nema?

Which? Wanne?
Which one do you like/want? Wanne ka/ki(ku) ke so?
Which one is good? Wanne yake da kyau?
Which food do you like/want? Wanne abinci ne ka ke so?
Which Girl do you like most? Wanne Yarinya ce kafi so?
Which one was brought? Wanne aka kawo?
(Who)Which one cooked this meat? Wacce ta dafa wannan nama?
Which ever he/she gives you(all) take/collect it! Ko wanne ya/ta ba ka ka dauka!

Who? Wanene?
Who is that? Wanene wanchan?
Who is Coming? Wanene Yake Zuwa?
Who is calling Joy? Wanene Yake kiran Joy?
Who is it? Wane ne?(male) or Wace ce?(female)
Who has come? Wanene ya zo? Su wanene suka zo?(plural)
Who did it? Wanene ya yi?

Where? Ina?
Where is he going? Ina Yake Zuwa?
Where is it? Ina Ya ke?
Where are you(all)? Ina ka/ki(ku) ke?
Where are they? Ina su ke?
Where is he/she? Ina ya/ta ke?
Where are our people? Ina mutanen mu?
Where did he/she go? Ya/Ta tafi ina ne?

How? Yaya?
How is work? Yaya aiki?
How many? Guda nawa ne?
How much? Nawa ne?
How are you(all)? Yaya ka/ki(ku) ke?
How will you(all) do (it)? Yaya za ka/ki(ku) yi?
How should I know? Yaya zan sani?
How do/did they know? Yaya suka sani?[/b]

Please note that only learners and beginners are expected to solve these assignments . Thanks for understanding.


Translate the following into Hausa as best as you can .

1) Who will give me food?
2) Who will teach me hausa?
3) Who is at home?
4) Which house are you?
5) Which Nairalander do you like?
6) Why did you not give him/her money?
7) Why are you at home?
Why will I not sit with Caseless?
9) Why don't you want to go out?
9) What is your problem?
10) What did you just say(What did you say just now)?
11) What will you do with me?
12) What did you/he/she/they say?
13) How are you?
14) How is your mother?
15) How is school?
16) Where are we going tomorrow?
17) Where is my/his/her/our/their food?
18) Where do I go from here?


19) When are you coming?
20) When are you getting married?

GOOD LUCK.

Cc: AfricanApple, Paretomaster, Silkmoth33,

Jbluv55:

Now I post assignments

Please note that only learners and beginners are expected to solve these assignments . Thanks for understanding.


Translate the following into Hausa as best as you can .

1) Who will give me food?
2) Who will teach me hausa?
3) Who is at home?
4) Which house are you?
5) Which Nairalander do you like?
6) Why did you not give him/her money?
7) Why are you at home?
Why will I not sit with Caseless?
9) Why don't you want to go out?
9) What is your problem?
10) What did you just say(What did you say just now)?
11) What will you do with me?
12) What did you/he/she/they say?
13) How are you?
14) How is your mother?
15) How is school?
16) Where are we going tomorrow?
17) Where is my/his/her/our/their food?
18) Where do I go from here?


19) When are you coming?
20) When are you getting married?

GOOD LUCK.
,

AfricanApple:
jbluv55, I think d way u spell 'Don' is not correct, it should rather be 'Dan'
paretomaster pls clarify dis