Hausa Negation
Learning the Hausa Negation is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Hausa language. But first we need to know what the role of Negation is in the structure of the grammar in Hausa.
Hausa negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement (I am happy) into its opposite denial (I am not happy). Here are some examples:
| English Negation | Hausa Negation |
| Negation | negation |
| he is not here | ba ya nan |
| that is not my book | ba ya littafana |
| do not enter | ba sukan shiga |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Negation in Hausa has a logical pattern. Locate the Negation above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Hausa.
List of Negation in Hausa
Below is a list of the Negation and negative expressions in Hausa placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Hausa vocabulary.
| English Negation | Hausa Negation |
| I don't speak | ba na magana |
| I don't write | ba na rubuta |
| I don't drive | ba na tuƙa |
| I don't love | ba na so |
| I don't give | ba na ba da |
| I don't smile | ba na murmushin |
| I don't take | ba na ɗauki |
| |
| he doesn't speak | ba shi magana |
| he doesn't write | ba ya rubuta |
| he doesn't drive | ba ya tuƙa |
| he doesn't love | ba ya son |
| he doesn't give | ba shi da |
| he doesn't smile | ba shi yake |
| he doesn't take | ba shi amsa |
| |
| we don't speak | ba mu yi magana |
| we don't write | ba Mu rubuta |
| we don't drive | ba Mu kora |
| we don't love | ba mu so |
| we don't give | mu ba mu ba |
| we don't smile | mu ba su yaƙe |
| we don't take | mu ba su amsa |
Negation and negative expressions have a very important role in Hausa, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Hausa Negation, you might want to check the rest of our Hausa lessons here: Learn Hausa. Don't forget to bookmark this page.