Hausa Prepositions

If you're trying to learn Hausa Prepositions you will find some useful resources including a course about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Hausa grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Hausa. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

Hausa Prepositions

Learning the Hausa Prepositions 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 Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Hausa.

Hausa prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples:

English Prepositions	Hausa Prepositions
Prepositions	prepositions
inside the house	ciki
outside the car	a waje motar
with me	da ni
without him	ba shi
under the table	ƙarƙashin tebur
after tomorrow	bayan gobe
before sunset	gabanin ɓacewarta
but I'm busy	amma ina hada-hada

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Prepositions in Hausa has a logical pattern. Locate the Prepositions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Hausa.

List of Prepositions in Hausa

Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Hausa placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Hausa vocabulary.

English Prepositions	Hausa Prepositions
about	a
above	bisa
across	a fadin
after	bayan
against	da
among	a cikin
around
as	kamar
at	a
before
behind	baya a
below
beneath	ƙarƙashin ƙasa
beside	,
between	tsakanin
beyond	fiye
but
by	da, amma
despite	duk da haka
down	a
during	lokacin
except	sai dai
for
from	daga
in
inside	ciki
into	a
near	kusa da
next	yankin
of
on	a
opposite	daura da
out	fita
outside	waje
over	a
per	kowace
plus	zamana wani
round	tagiyar
since	tun
than	fiye da
through	ta
till	kai zuwa
to	ga
toward	da
under	a ƙarƙashin
unlike	wahala
until	, har
up	da
via	ta
with	da
within	,
without	ba tare da

two words	magana biyu
according to	bisa ga
because of	saboda
close to	kusa
due to	saboda
except for	sai
far from	da nisa daga
inside of	ciki,
instead of	a maimakon
near to	kusa da
next to	yankin
outside of	wajen
prior to	dā

three words	uku magana
as far as	a kan iyakar
as well as	da
in addition to	tare da
in front of	a gaban
in spite of	duk da
on behalf of	a maimakon
on top of	a Bisa

demonstratives	demonstrative pronouns
this	wannan
that	da
these
those	waɗanda

Time place and demonstrative pronouns have a very important role in Hausa, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Hausa Prepositions, you might want to check the rest of our Hausa lessons here: Learn Hausa. Don't forget to bookmark this page.

Hausa Prepositions

Hausa Prepositions

Hausa Prepositions

List of Prepositions in Hausa

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