When to use it
Use it when booking a holiday stay and you want a pool and internet.
The sentence in English: “I'm looking for a hotel with a pool and wifi.”
In “I'm looking for a hotel with a pool and wifi.” ‘with’ attaches the features after ‘hotel’.
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- hotel
- nounnoun
- with
- prepositionpreposition
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- pool
- nounnoun; a swimming pool
- and
- coordinating conjunctioncoordinating conjunction
- wifi
- nounnoun
The sentence in Hausa: “Ina neman otal mai wurin ninkaya da wifi.”
In “Ina neman otal mai wurin ninkaya da wifi.” ‘mai’ (having) attaches the features, like ‘with’. ‘wurin ninkaya’ (place of swimming) is a pool, and ‘da’ here means ‘and’.
- Ina
- pronounina neman while choosing a hotel
- neman
- verbnema · form: verbal noun + -n · 'looking for', not chosen yet
- otal
- noun'hotel'
- mai
- preposition'having, with'
- wurin
- nounwuri 'place' + linker -n
- ninkaya
- noun'swimming'; wurin ninkaya = pool
- da
- coordinating conjunction'and'
- wifi
- noun'wifi', from English
What changes from one language to the other: English × Hausa
Both put the features after the noun; Hausa uses ‘mai’ and needs no articles.
Example conversation
— Ina neman otal mai wurin ninkaya da wifi.
— I'm looking for a hotel with a pool and wifi.
— Waɗannan otal biyu kusa da tafki suna da duka biyun.
— These two by the lake have both.