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Lesson 8 of 10
Getting around in Hausa
Left, right, the station, one ticket, where is the toilet. Play the ten Hausa words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Hausa phrases in this lesson
- Ina banɗaki?EE-nah ban-DAH-kee
- Where is the toilet?
- Yaya zan je...?YAH-yah zan jeh
- How do I get to...?
- Zuwa haguZOO-wah HAH-goo
- To the left
- Zuwa damaZOO-wah DAH-mah
- To the right
- Sai gabasai GAH-bah
- Straight ahead
- Nannan
- Here
- Tashar jirgin ƙasatah-SHAR jir-GEEN KAH-sah
- Train station
- Basbas
- Bus
- Filin jirgin samafee-LEEN jir-GEEN SAH-mah
- Airport
- Tikiti ɗaya, don Allahtee-KEE-tee DAH-yah, don AL-lah
- One ticket, please
Literally "only forward".
"Can" (chan) is there.
Literally "station of the land vessel". Trains run between Kano and Lagos and on the Abuja to Kaduna line.
Shared minibuses and motorbike taxis, achaba, cover most trips.
Literally "field of the sky vessel".