“He works at a hospital.” in Hausa (English × Hausa)

When to use it

Use it to say where someone you know works.

“He works at a hospital.” · The sentence in English

In “He works at a hospital.” ‘works’ takes ‘-s’ for the third person, and ‘a’ is required.

He

pronounpersonal pronoun, third person singular

works

verbwork · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · the -s marks the third person singular

at

prepositionpreposition of place

a

determinerindefinite article

hospital

nounnoun

“Yana aiki a asibiti.” · The sentence in Hausa

In “Yana aiki a asibiti.” ‘Yana’ combines ‘ya’ (he) with the continuous ‘na’; a woman would be ‘Tana aiki’. ‘aiki’ (work) is a verbal noun, and there is no article.

Yana

pronounya 'he' + na (continuous): he is

aiki

noun'work', as a verbal noun

a

preposition'at'

asibiti

noun'hospital', from English

What changes from one language to the other · English × Hausa

English marks the person on the verb; Hausa puts gender and aspect in ‘Yana’.

Example conversation