When to use it
Use it on a Sunday when you need medicine and your usual shop is closed.
“I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.” — The sentence in English
In “I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.” ‘open on Sunday’ follows the noun without ‘that is’.
- 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
- pharmacy
- nounnoun
- open
- adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"
- on
- prepositionpreposition used with days of the week
- Sunday
- proper nounproper noun; days of the week take a capital letter
“Ina neman kantin magani da ke buɗe ranar Lahadi.” — The sentence in Hausa
In “Ina neman kantin magani da ke buɗe ranar Lahadi.” the relative ‘da ke’ (that is) links the description to ‘kantin magani’ (shop of medicine, a pharmacy). ‘Ina neman’ is the ongoing ‘I'm looking for’.
- Ina
- pronounina neman = I am looking for
- neman
- verbnema · form: verbal noun + -n · 'looking for'
- kantin
- nounkanti 'shop' + linker -n
- magani
- nounkantin magani = pharmacy
- da
- subordinating conjunction'that, which'
- ke
- pronoun'is', continuous after da
- buɗe
- adjective'open'
- ranar
- noun'on the day of'
- Lahadi
- proper noun'Sunday'
English × Hausa: What changes from one language to the other
English can drop ‘that is’; Hausa needs ‘da ke’. Both put the description after the noun.
Example conversation
— Ina neman kantin magani da ke buɗe ranar Lahadi.
— I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.
— Wanda ke kusa da asibiti a buɗe yake.
— The one near the hospital is open.