When to use it
Use it when driving into a city centre and you want cheap basement parking.
“I'm looking for cheap underground parking.” — The sentence in English
In “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.” two short adjectives sit before ‘parking’.
- 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"
- cheap
- adjectiveadjective
- underground
- adjectiveadjective; below street level
- parking
- nounnoun
“Ina neman wurin ajiye mota a ƙarƙashin ƙasa mai araha.” — The sentence in Hausa
In “Ina neman wurin ajiye mota a ƙarƙashin ƙasa mai araha.” the two adjectives become phrases after the noun: ‘a ƙarƙashin ƙasa’ (under the ground) and ‘mai araha’ (having cheapness). ‘parking’ is ‘wurin ajiye mota’ (place to put a car).
- Ina
- pronounina neman = I am looking for
- neman
- verbnema · form: verbal noun + -n · 'looking for', while driving in town
- wurin
- nounwuri 'place' + linker -n
- ajiye
- verbajiye · form: base · 'put down'; ajiye mota = park a car
- mota
- noun'car'
- a
- prepositionpart of a ƙarƙashin 'under'
- ƙarƙashin
- preposition'under'
- ƙasa
- noun'ground'; ƙarƙashin ƙasa = underground
- mai
- preposition'having'; mai araha = cheap
- araha
- noun'cheapness'
English × Hausa: What changes from one language to the other
English stacks short words before the noun; Hausa explains with longer phrases after it.
Example conversation
— Ina neman wurin ajiye mota a ƙarƙashin ƙasa mai araha.
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— Wurin ajiye mota a ƙarƙashin babban kanti ya fi araha.
— The shopping mall basement is cheapest.