jiya

adverb

LanguageHausa (Nigeria)

Meaning

yesterday
Use this word to talk about the day before today. It helps you specify when a past event occurred.

Examples

Mun tafi kasuwa jiya.

We went to the market yesterday.

Part of speechadverb

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Example sentences from Tatoeba

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Jiya na tafi.

It was yesterday that I went.

Sentence by ecorralest101 (sentence, CC BY 2.0 FR); English by CK (sentence, CC BY 2.0 FR); from Tatoeba.