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Lesson 4 of 10

Counting to ten in Hausa

One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. 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.

A village beside Zuma Rock in Nigeria
Counting to ten
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Anass Sedrati, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Hausa phrases in this lesson

ƊayaDAH-yah
One

The hooked Ɗ is a d said with a little catch.

Biyubee-YOO
Two
UkuOO-koo
Three
HuɗuHOO-doo
Four
Biyarbee-YAR
Five
ShidaSHEE-dah
Six
Bakwaibah-KWAI
Seven
Takwastah-KWAS
Eight
TaraTAH-rah
Nine
GomaGOH-mah
Ten

Where Hausa is spoken

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