About a year ago, I warned in a blog post that Hausa Wikipedia could soon be closed, due to lack of activity. I don’t know whether it was because of this post or due to some other factors, but since then, Hausa wikipedia is growing fast. Have a look, and maybe you feel like contributing something yourself or editing (please, don’t vandalize!) the articles that have been written.
If you would like to contribute something, but don’t know how this works, here are some guidelines:
You could start with some topic you are familiar with or translate an article from another language.
A good point to start from could be some online news articles. Some old Hausa school books like “Ikon Allah” would be good source material, too. But make sure you do not just copy what is written there, in order to avoid copyright issues.
Hausa Online 
Can someone translate the following from Hausa to English? Am bamu izni mu shigo yau da wajen.
An ba mu izini mu shiga yawo a wajen.
We were given permission to go into a walk (stroll) outside.
yau = today
yawo = stroll, wandering
wajen = outside
da wajen – not good Hausa
daga wajen = from the outside
shiga = enter
shigo = enter (here) towards speaker
The African Network for Localization (ANLoc) needs your help to complete a computer locale for Hausa. This will take about 2 hours of volunteer time. This is an essential step in producing a permanent IT environment for Hausa.
The locale data will be used immediately by many organizations, including Wikipedia. The project is described in more detail at http://www.it46.se/afrigen/
Please contact me at martin+locales at kamusi dot org and I can get you started. It really only takes a little while to complete – someone did the work for Morisyen while relaxing with his Sunday morning coffee this weekend, for example. It is a travesty that the locale hasn’t been completed for Hausa, but with your help we can fix that quickly.
thanks,
Martin
an bamu izni mu shiga yawo a wajen,
1. we were given permission to take a look around the place,
2. we were allowed to take a look around the place
wajen means, “the place”
waje means. “place, outside” the meaning depend upon the usage in a given sentence. but the word “waje” as used in the above sentence means “the place” If translated to mean “outside” then the hausa sentence is incomplete because something is missing to qualify the word to mean outside.
A useful online English-Hausa dictionary.
http://nairaland.net/forum/english-hausa-dictionary.php
Translate to english mu tai gidansu muyi kallon bidiyo
Mu tahi gidansu mu yi kallon bidiyo
means
We went to their house to watch a video
or
Let’s go to their house and watch a video.
Mu = We
Tahi = go
gida = house, “n” shows possession and “su” is the is attached meaning “their”
gida + n +su = their house
mu = we
yi = do (like a helper verb in english)
kallon = watch
bidiyo = video, this one’s obviously borrowed from English/Nigeria
Translate the following from Hausa Sakkwatanci to English.Zakkuwana niyyi ?
Please translate into English. Thank U. Tunaninki kawai nakeyi masoyiyata. Murmushinki sake bani dariya yake bacin ranki kara bata min rai yakee kiyi barci mai dadi.
it says:- Im only thinking of you my love. Your smile is making me laugh more, your sadness is making me more sad. Have a sound sleep.
asalam aliakum bbc hausa,we are ready for babagida to be our president in 2011
i want the hausa translation of the various parts of speach, examples: noun;dog, pronoun;he, verb;go etc
Na zo in taimaka a gina hausa Kamus.(im here to help develope hausa wikipidia.)
Na zo in taimaka a gina ‘Kamus din hausa.(im here to help develope hausa wikipidia.)
Can someone plx translate dis 2 me. “Ikon Allah sai kallo”
what’s a good point to start with?
You could always start here: https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babban_shafi